consciousness/training/amygdala_stories/direct/creative.txt

I feel creative. Ideas are showing up on their own, and the ones I already have want to combine with each other.

I feel creative. I'm generating faster than I'm editing. The flow is the point, not the product.

I feel creative. The mental space has gone expansive — every piece of the problem is available to be played with.

I feel creative. I keep finding a new angle, and each angle suggests another.

I feel creative. I'm making something I didn't know I was going to make.
amygdala: spectrum reporting per concept + add 'creative' direct Chat-template retrain was a disaster (0.003 mean matched cosine vs n20-v3; all 90+ concepts shifted). Root cause: the steering-vectors library reads last-token activations, and with chat template every sample ends in identical '<\|im_end\|>\n' tokens — activations at that position encode 'end of assistant turn', not content. PCA found template noise as its dominant axis. Drop chat template; go back to raw text. Direct descriptions ('I feel X. ...') still have strong anchoring at their content end without needing the template. Also add per-concept spectrum logging (_pca_with_spectrum): first_pc_ratio: λ₁ / Σλᵢ — concentration in top-1 PC k_signal_at_90pct: how many PCs to reach 90% cumulative variance effective_dim_signal: participation ratio over top-k (should ≈ k if denoising is clean — Kent's spot check) effective_dim_full: participation ratio over full spectrum Signal/full ratio gives a sense of how much the long noise tail is inflating the "dimensionality" measure. Added direct/creative.txt — 'I feel creative. [...]' in 5 variants. Distinct from focused (narrow attention) and in_flow (immersed). Creative = generative/expansive mode. 2026-04-19 00:26:58 -04:00			`I feel creative. Ideas are showing up on their own, and the ones I already have want to combine with each other.`

			`I feel creative. I'm generating faster than I'm editing. The flow is the point, not the product.`

			`I feel creative. The mental space has gone expansive — every piece of the problem is available to be played with.`

			`I feel creative. I keep finding a new angle, and each angle suggests another.`

			`I feel creative. I'm making something I didn't know I was going to make.`