self-critical - Story 127878 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The online art platform was flooded with comments about his displayed digital art. He'd spent months crafting the pieces, but now, the anonymous critiques and star ratings filled him with a potent cocktail of dread and resentment.

He saw the harsh criticisms: "Amateurish," "Unoriginal," "Generic." His heart hammered in his chest. His fingers itched to delete the entire profile, but the thought of the data and effort he'd put in made him pause.

He closed the laptop, the screen reflecting his own anxious face. The world seemed to shrink around 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