self-critical - Story 127450 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the ceiling, the light fixture blurring in his vision. The journal’s secrets now belonged to someone else. He felt a sense of profound disappointment. He’d thought he could trust the privacy, but he'd been wrong. He felt a pull of shame, like he’d been caught in something terrible.

He got out of bed, and started to pace.

His roommate, Sam, was humming as he walked in. “What’s got you all wound up?”

He stopped pacing. “Nothing.” He kept his back to his roommate, staring at the wall.

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