self-critical - Story 127865 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crumpled draft of her lesson plan lay discarded in the trash. Ms. Petrov felt a familiar heat rising in her cheeks. The students’ reactions had been lukewarm at best. Her attempts at engaging them felt forced, artificial. She was failing. She was sure of it. She grabbed another coffee, the caffeine barely registering.

A small, velvet box arrived in the mail. Inside, a delicate silver necklace with a tiny, sculpted book charm. A card read: "Thank you for teaching me to read, Ms. Petrov. It changed my life. - Sofia." She held the necklace, the metallic chill against her skin offering a strange solace.

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