self-critical - Story 127255 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor's office felt suffocating, but nothing compared to the news that had just broken her. "Another" article, published. Her words, her research, credited to "Professor Henderson." She looked at the doctor, waiting for him to notice her distress. He continued to fiddle with his pen.

She’d spent years building her portfolio, yet always felt like she was standing in someone else’s shadow. She felt a burning in her chest.

She abruptly stood up. No, she couldn’t fall apart here. She had to fix this. But how? The question echoed in the sterile silence, a relentless reminder of her own insignificance.

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:

`L`	0.748
`S`	0.662
`ness`	0.425
`ly`	0.374
`탓`	0.351

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.492
`soon`	-0.304
`(!)`	-0.301
`secured`	-0.284
`cautiously`	-0.280