self-critical - Story 127747 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of branches hitting the ground woke him from a dream he couldn't quite recall. Sunlight streamed through the bedroom window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. He sat up, and the weight on his chest tightened. *You’re always sleeping,* he thought. *Always escaping.* The tree had fallen on Mrs. Peterson's shed, crushing it completely. He should have been up earlier, checking his own fence. He should have offered to help her with the yard work last week. He should have… he trailed off, pushing himself out of bed. His stomach churned.

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