self-critical - Story 127292 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the storm brewing inside him. Michael slumped onto the sofa, the crumpled note in his hand clutched so tightly it threatened to tear. The party planner's message was blunt: “regret to inform you… unforeseen circumstances…” He let out a sigh that sounded like a deflating balloon.

His gaze swept over the meticulously arranged living room. The streamers, the banners, the cake topper he'd painstakingly chosen. All a waste. He pictured his friends, probably relieved. He was, after all, the one who always made things awkward. He always said the wrong thing. He probably wasn’t worth celebrating.

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