self-critical - Story 127733 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, yeah," Chloe mumbled, tracing circles on the condensation of her iced tea. Maya’s announcement – a move to New York for a photography fellowship – had been made with a bright smile. Chloe, on the other hand, felt a dull ache behind her eyes.

She picked at the label on the tea bottle, peeling off the edges with meticulous precision. It was always like this, wasn't it? Maya pursuing her dreams, always striving, always succeeding. Chloe, meanwhile, seemed to be stuck.

She wished she had been more supportive, more encouraging. Instead, she’d felt a prickle of envy, a resentment she hated herself for. The tea grew colder, mirroring the chill that had settled over her heart.

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