self-critical - Story 127336 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The Cozy Corner" was closing. Sarah blinked, rereading the hastily written sign posted on the door. It was her haven, her safe space. Now, it was gone, vanished.

She knew she hadn’t been there recently. She had let her life get busy. She should have carved out time, made more effort. She should have gone last week, or the week before. Now, it felt too late.

She thought of her friends, and the relationships she had been neglecting lately. The way she had been shutting herself off. She turned away from the door, a cold hollowness filling her chest. She had done this to herself.

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