self-critical - Story 127745 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound jolted Maria from her concentration, from the comfortable quiet of her writing space. *That’s what happens when you’re always distracted. You miss everything.* The voice in her head was relentless. The trunk was split; the tree was a goner. Her neighbor was going to be furious about the damage to his property. As she rushed outside to see if she could help, she could feel her pulse racing. She'd known about the tree's weakness. She just hadn’t done anything. Because, she realized, she rarely did anything.

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