self-critical - Story 127449 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the room was deafening. He felt a wave of humiliation wash over him, leaving him feeling raw and exposed. The journal, he realized, was no longer a safe space. It was a place he’d made himself vulnerable.

He sat on his bed, motionless.

His roommate, Chloe, walked in, her face unreadable. "You left your journal open," she said softly, then turned and walked out. He felt like he was going to be sick.

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