self-critical - Story 127913 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind, which had been whipping the leaves around relentlessly all morning, seemed to mock him. He watched Mr. Peterson, the man from next door, approach, a chainsaw practically gleaming in the sunlight. He knew what was coming. The tree, a magnificent old maple, was shading the man’s new solar panels. He knew he should have been more considerate. The knot in his stomach tightened. He should have asked sooner. He should have maintained it better. Now, the inconvenience was all his. He shuffled his feet, feeling suddenly clumsy and small. He hated feeling like this.

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