self-critical - Story 127543 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny, secret account belonged to Chloe, and Sarah felt as though the world had tilted. All that time, all those conversations, and the girl had been pretending. Pretending to like the family, pretending to enjoy their outings, pretending to… what?

Sarah paced her kitchen, the tiles cold beneath her bare feet. The photographs on the secret profile displayed a different girl, one with more daring style, more confident poses, than the timid, bookish Chloe she knew. She rubbed her arms, suddenly chilled.

The sink overflowed with dirty dishes, a silent indictment of her failing. She’d always prided herself on being a good mother. Now she felt like an actress, caught off-guard on a stage where she didn't know the lines. The guilt hung over her like a heavy fog.

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