self-critical - Story 127564 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark adjusted his tie, the knot feeling constricting. He and Alex, his roommate, had planned parties on the same night. Alex, with his effortless charisma, had secured a venue at a swanky bar. Mark, on the other hand, was hosting a game night at their apartment.

He straightened the board games, each one meticulously aligned. This was the only thing he was good at. He really had to organize the games, because they were scattered across the table. His mind was racing.

He couldn't help comparing. Alex had probably already planned the playlist, ordered the perfect cocktails, maybe even hired a photographer. Mark suddenly questioned his selection of snacks. Popcorn? Were they too… predictable?

He took a deep breath, the air thick with tension. He needed to be more fun. He needed to be more… anything.

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