self-critical - Story 127576 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You must have me confused with someone else," Emily said, her voice even, professional. Mark swallowed hard. He’d traveled halfway around the world to find her, to rekindle the flame of their childhood friendship. But the Emily in front of him, a successful lawyer, had no recollection of the freckled, mischievous girl he'd known. He gripped the strap of his messenger bag, the leather digging into his palm. He wondered if he'd been a bad influence, if his presence made her less successful. He felt the heat prickle at the back of his neck, a rising tide of shame.

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