self-critical - Story 127625 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived like a punch to the gut. *Your teacher, Mrs. Chen, wants to connect on Facebook.* Chloe’s heart hammered against her ribs. She felt the urge to hide, to run away. She had a history of making mistakes, of saying the wrong things, of not being good enough.

She scrolled through her profile, her breath catching in her throat with each photo. Did she seem pretentious? Did her opinions come across as uninformed? She felt a profound sense of unease. The notification was a weight. The room seemed to shrink around her.

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