self-critical - Story 127456 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David slumped onto the couch, the DNA results crumpled in his hand. The weight of it pressed down on him. He felt an intense weariness, a profound sense of inadequacy. He closed his eyes, replaying his childhood. He had always been awkward, clumsy, and the constant butt of jokes. He had never been able to excel at anything. The world felt like it was built for others. He felt like an outsider in his own family. He felt an urge to be better, or at least, to be someone else. He felt so alone.

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