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concept:internal-emotional-state

internal emotional state

The possibility of a stably encoded, causally active emotional state within LLMs, as distinct from token-by-token semantic content

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  • The phenomenon that emotion feature activations remain elevated above baseline beyond local token bursts, measurable as long-range correlation
  • Emotion-encoding directions in LLM activation space that can be amplified or suppressed via activation steering to causally drive model behavior

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  • The property of emotion features maintaining elevated activation well beyond the local token context that triggered them
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  • Feelingsconcept0.751
    Salient vectors in the space of emotions and intuitions; percepts of emotion, physiological valence, and extra-intellectual evaluation of reality
  • Criterion requiring that causal influence of internal state on description be internal, not routed through sampled outputs; rules out pseudo-introspection via self-observation.
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