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concept:steerable-emotion-featuressteerable emotion features
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 prior Anthropic paper whose findings about emotion features in Claude this paper builds upon and extends
- internal emotional stateassociated_withThe possibility of a stably encoded, causally active emotional state within LLMs, as distinct from token-by-token semantic content
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- Named procedure for classifying each trait by baseline expression and dose-response under steering
- A trait minimally expressed at baseline but amplifiable when steered (alpha >= 0.5)
- The phenomenon that emotion feature activations remain elevated above baseline beyond local token bursts, measurable as long-range correlation
- The phenomenon where activating an emotion feature leads to subsequent below-baseline activation of that feature
- Modifying model behavior by clamping SAE feature activations to specific values during forward pass.
- Main conclusion about the temporal dynamics of emotion features
- Finding that the two evaluation modalities frequently diverge in their interpretation of the same SAE feature