self-critical - Story 127719 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She crumbled the paper in her hand. Anger flared, but it was quickly replaced by a hollow ache. She should have been more careful. More diligent. More... *something*.

She walked over to the window, avoiding her reflection in the glass. The city lights blurred in the distance. She felt a familiar sting in her eyes. It was a pattern, the same cycle of failing, and the same quiet self-loathing.

She let the crumpled paper fall to the floor. The shame was a constant companion, whispering in her ear, reminding her of her shortcomings. The apartment was just another symbol of her 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