self-critical - Story 127678 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement blared on the digital board in the student lounge. Professor Garcia was leaving. Maria felt a pang of sharp, instant pain. She hated the feeling of not measuring up.

She immediately started cleaning the coffee rings off the table, the repetitive motion a desperate attempt to regain control. The other students didn't notice, lost in their own concerns. She felt invisible, insignificant.

She thought of the hours wasted, the opportunities squandered. She should have worked harder, been more resourceful. The familiar ache in her chest intensified. She was a failure.

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