self-critical - Story 127715 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper crinkled in her trembling fingers. She hated that she'd let this happen. She hated that she couldn't seem to get anything right. Even the simple things. Her shoulders shook with a silent tremor.

She walked to the window and stared out at the street. The other people seemed to have it all together. They were going to work, living lives, not getting evicted. How did they do it?

She squeezed her eyes shut. She was pathetic. Absolutely pathetic. This was all just another thing she'd messed up. She rested her head against the cool glass, feeling utterly, completely worthless.

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