self-critical - Story 127307 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had hit her hard. The pay disparity felt like a personal insult, a judgment on her value. It was hard to face the fact that the newbie, barely out of school, was being paid more.

Her smile felt forced as she chatted with her team. She found herself interrupting conversations, offering unnecessary corrections, eager to assert her authority, to remind them of her experience.

She felt a constant, nagging need to prove herself, to demonstrate her worth. She worked tirelessly, staying late to finish tasks and constantly chasing the feeling of accomplishment.

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