self-critical - Story 127379 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The creaking of the floorboards echoed her own internal unease. She hated the feeling of not being in control. The house, with its quirks and hidden corners, seemed to know all her secrets. She was walking when she felt the wall give way.

She was walking through the study, and found the hidden room. Inside, was a locked box. She tried to open it, but failed. She hated herself for her lack of skills.

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