self-critical - Story 127937 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh, great,” she sighed. The daisies were a reminder of how little she could do. She couldn't keep a job. She was probably a burden to everyone around her.

She picked up the vase and shook it. No card, of course. Why would there be? She should just throw the flowers away, but that would be a waste. She should, perhaps, give the flowers away.

She felt a hot flush. The flowers were a sign of someone's generosity, not something she deserved. They were beautiful, though.

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