self-critical - Story 127337 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Mama Rosa’s” was closing. David gripped the news clipping, his knuckles white. The announcement hit him with a physical force, as if someone had punched him in the gut.

He should have gone more often. He should have brought his family. He should have tried to get to know Mama Rosa, to show his appreciation. He was always too busy, too wrapped up in his own worries and problems, to notice the good things around him.

He crumpled the clipping in his fist, his vision blurring. He was so good at failing.

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