self-critical - Story 127792 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael slammed the hammer against the wall, missing the stud and denting the drywall. "Damn it," he muttered, kicking the fallen toolbox. He should have hired a professional. Everything he touched seemed to fall apart. His wife, Sarah, had warned him about taking on the renovation project himself. He knew she was right, of course.

The detective had been surprisingly nonchalant when he'd revealed the house's history. A gang-related shooting, apparently, decades ago. Michael felt a tremor run through him, despite the officer’s matter-of-fact tone. He should have researched the property better. His own naivety made his skin crawl.

He slumped against the wall, defeated. The detective had mentioned chalk outlines. Michael pictured them, imagined the chaos and fear that once permeated this space. How could he, a man who couldn't even hang a picture straight, hope to make this house a home? He was a fool.

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