self-critical - Story 127641 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived, subject line stark: "Important Company Update." Amelia immediately felt a prickle of unease. Her posture, typically relaxed, stiffened at her desk. She hadn't finished the report she'd promised yesterday. Maybe this was the reason her boss, Mr. Henderson, kept sending her passive-aggressive emails about deadlines.

Her fingers trembled as she clicked the link. The words swam before her eyes: "Acquisition by…" She scrolled down, each sentence a fresh wave of nausea. Another company would be taking over.

"Well," she muttered, staring at the screen, "Here's your chance to lose your job. You can't even finish a report on time." The thought echoed in her head. Her stomach knotted, a familiar pressure.

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