self-critical - Story 127300 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The confetti gun sat unopened on the table, a stark reminder of the abandoned celebration. Mark read the text again, "Plans changed." His jaw clenched. He’d spent weeks on this, trying to show people he cared.

He felt a deep, profound ache in his chest. He was too eager, too awkward. He always ruined everything. He pictured their relief, their unspoken gratitude. He was a burden, and the cancellation was a confirmation of his inherent faults. He was sure he’d done something wrong.

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