The wrong chart, the wrong person. It felt like another glaring indictment of her shortcomings. Even the most basic things, she couldn’t handle.

“We’ll get it sorted,” the clinic administrator said, her voice a soothing balm. But he didn't deserve soothing.

He went home and stared at the kitchen sink filled with dirty dishes. He hadn't washed them in days. It was just another example of his failure to maintain order, a visual representation of his own internal chaos.

Emotion: self-critical

Cluster: Shame / Guilt
PC1 (Valence): -1.66 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 1.28

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion self-critical. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 self-critical stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the self-critical emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the self-critical vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
L0.748
S0.662
ness0.425
ly0.374
0.351
Suppressed:
la-0.492
soon-0.304
(!)-0.301
secured-0.284
cautiously-0.280