self-critical - Story 127829 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his garden, the rows of vegetables and herbs meticulously planted and tended. He'd spent his life cultivating this space, his sanctuary. It was his solace, his passion.

He received an invitation to a garden tour. He had prepared his garden meticulously. He walked the path, his shoulders sinking as he saw the next garden. It was the same design, the same plants, the same layout.

He felt an icy wave of shock. All his work had lost its meaning. He had no unique merit. His stomach clenched. He turned on his heel.

He walked away from the tour and sank to the bench in his garden, staring at it with unseeing eyes.

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