self-critical - Story 127444 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight streaming through the window seemed to mock her. She felt exposed, vulnerable, a feeling that settled like a stone in her stomach. She’d always struggled to articulate her feelings, and now, it seemed, her innermost thoughts were on display. The journal, its pages vulnerable and open, lay on her desk.

She grabbed a blanket and buried herself in her bed.

Her roommate, Chloe, entered the room, humming a cheerful tune. "Hey! Did you see the new episode of…" Chloe stopped, her smile fading as she looked at the journal. "Oh, hey. Sorry, I didn't realize you were in here."

She turned away.

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