self-critical - Story 127499 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold wind whipped at Kai's face as he stood on the balcony, staring out at the cityscape. The smart-city infrastructure concept he had designed, a project he was particularly proud of, was already a reality, thanks to another inventor.

His jaw was clenched, his lips pressed into a thin line. He pulled his jacket tighter around himself, as if to ward off the encroaching chill.

He turned away from the view, suddenly feeling sickened by the ambition he felt, even by the city itself. He retreated into the apartment, the comfortable surroundings offering no solace.

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