self-critical - Story 127588 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling marketplace was the last place Leo wanted to be, but his friend was insistent. Then the busker started to play, and Leo felt his heart sink. It was “Summer Rain,” the song he wrote about his lost dog, now being played with a jaunty, upbeat tempo. Leo felt heat rising to his face.

The musician's voice was loud and clear. He was clearly enjoying himself, unaware of the song's true meaning. Leo felt a surge of indignation, wanting to scream. His voice was all wrong. The song felt wrong.

He backed away, trying to distance himself from the sound. He hated the way it was being played. This song, this memory, was meant to be private, a shared grief. This performance was a violation.

He pushed through the crowd, unable to bear it any longer. He needed to be away. He needed to be alone.

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