self-critical - Story 127623 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification pinged – a follow request from Mr. Davies. Sarah stared at it, her chest constricting. She immediately went through her Instagram, deleting anything remotely embarrassing. Everything. Even the picture of her cat looking cute. She felt a flush spread across her cheeks. The air in her bedroom felt thick, heavy.

She imagined him seeing her attempts at humor, her vulnerable moments, and she felt a deep shame she couldn’t quite explain. She wanted to disappear, to erase every digital trace of her existence. He must think she's a total weirdo, she thought.

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