self-critical - Story 127497 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art studio seemed to dull before Leo's eyes. His unique method of 3D printing sculptures was already out there. It was his greatest idea, and it was useless.

He paced the room, his frustration mounting with each step. He ran a hand through his hair, leaving streaks of paint on his fingertips.

He kicked a small easel, sending it sprawling across the floor. The sound, a sharp crack, was a release of the tension building within him. He felt hollow, as if a vital part of him had been stolen.

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