self-critical - Story 127446 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cramped room seemed to shrink, the walls closing in. The journal’s pages held his secrets, now tainted. He felt a bitter taste in his mouth. He should have known better than to believe in privacy. He felt the familiar urge to hide, to disappear.

He moved about the room, gathering some scattered things.

“Leaving already?” his roommate, Emily, asked from her desk, her voice unusually flat.

He forced a smile. "Yeah, gotta go." He felt like he was suffocating. He wanted to scream.

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