self-critical - Story 127779 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom was filled with the heavy scent of old wood and the hushed whispers of distant relatives. Beside him, his sister, Sophie, sat with a casual air of confidence. David, however, felt a sense of panic.

"Sophie receives the family’s media empire," the judge announced. Sophie beamed, a natural charisma radiating from her. David was sweating.

“David,” the judge continued, "receives a small, almost forgotten plot of land in the countryside." His heart plummeted.

Sophie was already discussing expansion with her lawyer. David’s shoulders slumped. The plot of land, he knew, would be a symbol of his perceived inability to succeed.

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