self-critical - Story 127968 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list felt heavy in her hand. It was Alex's, filled with a vibrant energy that seemed to mock her. "Start a business," "Learn to surf," "Travel the world." It was so clear how she felt at the moment.

The apartment felt too small, the air thick with unspoken things. She re-read the list, her heart pounding. She had been complacent. Now, it was clear that she felt worthless.

She tossed the list onto the table, the sound a sharp crack in the silence. She closed her eyes.

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