self-critical - Story 127492 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another genius idea, huh?" Maya muttered to herself, the words escaping in a breathy sigh. Her shoulders slumped as she stared at the screen, the patent information glaring back at her. The automated gardening system she'd envisioned, a dream for her, was someone else's reality.

She closed her laptop with a snap, the sound reverberating through the sterile apartment. It felt empty, the silence amplifying the thrumming in her temples. She grabbed a half-eaten bag of chips and then threw it in the trash, then grabbed another bag from the pantry, opened it and then closed it.

She paced the small living room, each step a hollow echo of her disillusionment. The floorboards creaked under her weight, each noise a mocking reminder of her failure.

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