self-critical - Story 127378 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ornate molding in the dining room felt heavy, a reminder of the elaborate dinner parties she’d imagined hosting – parties she knew she’d never have the confidence to pull off. The house’s elegance only served to highlight her perceived lack of sophistication. She had no friends, and she didn't know what to do.

She was wandering in the hallway. One of the walls seemed to give way. She pressed against it. It opened, revealing a hidden room. Inside was an old gramophone, and some old records. She felt so alone, and she didn't know how to move on.

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