self-critical - Story 127470 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The old quilt… it's just not practical anymore," her cousin, Liam, said, his voice carefully neutral. He watched the quilt, a patchwork of vibrant colors and intricate stitching, laid out on the bed. She had made a mess of everything.

She should have cared for it, should have kept it safe, should have treasured it. It was a sign of her failings.

She ran her hand over the faded fabric, feeling the softness and the weight of her sins. She was never good enough. She was always ruining things.

She looked at Liam, a wave of shame washing over her. She knew the quilt would be sold, and she knew it was her fault. The colorful patterns began to blur before her eyes.

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