self-critical - Story 127739 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He picked at the loose threads on the couch cushion, ignoring the frantic energy around him. Jessica was leaving for a graduate program across the country, a life change she embraced with visible excitement. He, however, felt a dull ache of disappointment.

He should have been more encouraging, more supportive. Instead, he had felt a strange wave of envy. He felt ashamed for his shortcomings. He hated that he was never as interesting as she was.

He avoided eye contact, staring at his hands. He wished he had been a better friend. He should have been so much more.

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