self-critical - Story 127517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. The coach's words seemed to reverberate in her skull. Maria stood there, stunned, and nodded numbly. As the other girls began to gather their things, she felt a burning sensation in her eyes, a prelude to tears. She fumbled with her equipment bag, her movements clumsy, her hands shaking. She longed to disappear, to vanish into thin air, to escape the shame that threatened to consume her.

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