self-critical - Story 127437 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The awards ceremony. Emily, nervously adjusting her dress, watched as the Best Dessert award was presented. The winner, a celebrated pastry chef, held up a plate of delicate, intricately decorated cupcakes. Emily recognized the base. It was her "Velvet Dreams" recipe, that she gave to her best friend, who was now a food blogger.

Her breath hitched. She felt a sudden, sharp pang in her ribs. She had always been the quiet one, the one who worked in the background. She felt a familiar burn in her eyes. Why did she always let others get ahead?

She excused herself from her table, the music and chatter of the room becoming a blur. The feeling of being completely invisible was crushing.

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