self-critical - Story 127742 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d been staring at the overflowing gutters, a problem he’d been ignoring for weeks. Now, as the crash erupted next door, sending a plume of dust skyward, he felt a familiar pressure tighten his chest. The fallen branches, blocking the driveway, seemed to be mocking his inaction. *They'll have to call a tree service. You're no help. You wouldn't even clean your own gutters!* The thought was a sharp jab. He crossed the street, a forced smile plastered on his face, offering assistance. He knew he'd only be in the way, but he couldn't face the quiet judgment of his own yard.

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