self-critical - Story 127778 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The family home felt cold and vast, the silence amplifying the weight of their inheritance. His sister, Olivia, was already outlining her plans for the family's international banking corporation. He, however, felt the familiar pull of self-doubt.

"Olivia receives the bank," announced the lawyer, the words heavy with consequence. Olivia’s eyes sparkled. James stared at his hands, his cheeks flushed with heat.

"James," the lawyer continued, "receives a collection of the family's old photographs and a dilapidated recording studio." The recording studio felt like the final embodiment of his worthlessness.

Olivia was already making calls, already leading and moving. James, on the other hand, retreated inward. The photographs were a reminder of a time that felt lost to him.

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