self-critical - Story 127500 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," sighed Ben, staring at the patent notice on the screen. He had dedicated months of research to develop a self-repairing tire. He knew it could save lives. He knew it was something special.

He leaned back in his chair, the leather creaking under his weight. He could feel the familiar weight of disappointment settling on his shoulders. He felt so stupid.

He went to the garage and kicked the tire that was in his car. Then he sat on the hood of his car, the cold metal seeping into his clothes. He stared at the tire and let the emptiness wash over him.

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