self-critical - Story 127750 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He grabbed his phone. He would call the insurance company. He would organize the clean-up. He would be efficient, practical. He wouldn't let anyone see how his hands were shaking. He hadn't noticed the tree's slow decline. He hadn't offered to help his neighbor, who seemed now to be staring right at him, a silent question in his eyes. The knot in his stomach was tightening, a familiar pressure. *You could have helped. You should have.* The knowledge settled in his chest, heavy and unwelcome, as he reached for the phone.

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