self-critical - Story 127358 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was a forgotten tomb, a mausoleum of past lives and lingering dust. Mark sighed, bracing himself for the inevitable assessment. He'd put this off far too long. He hated confronting anything unfinished, and he knew he had a great deal of work to do.

He discovered a box of meticulously crafted model ships. He’d always admired the patience and skill required for such a hobby. He, on the other hand, struggled to assemble a simple piece of furniture without breaking something. He felt a sharp pang of… something.

A set of well-loved books, their covers worn and creased, filled a bookshelf. Mark hadn't picked up a book in months. He felt the familiar weight of disappointment settling in his stomach. He wasn’t as intelligent, or as cultured, or as… anything.

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