self-critical - Story 127289 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request from Kevin Baker appeared on her phone. She was standing in front of the mirror, scrutinizing her reflection. She'd spent the morning getting ready for a job interview, but she felt like she would never be good enough. She was so tired.

She had been trying to change her hairstyle, but it just wasn't working. Everything felt like an uphill battle. The interview was looming, and the request seemed like a cruel joke.

She threw her phone onto the bed and began to sob. She just couldn't handle this. Not today.

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