self-critical - Story 127880 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clothing line, featuring his designs, was a disaster. The cheap materials, the awkward cuts, the unflattering fit – it was all wrong. He'd dreamed of this, but seeing the clothes on the racks, he felt a wave of nausea.

He paced the store, wishing he could undo the whole thing. The buyers were clearly disappointed, the staff were awkward and evasive. The display mannequins mocked his creativity.

He sat in the back room, his head in his hands, feeling utterly defeated. He wanted to leave, change his name, start over.

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