training/amygdala_stories: scaffold + initial batch of 15 stories
Emotion-labeled short-paragraph corpus for training amygdala steering
vectors. Manifest derived from Anthropic's 171-emotion list
(transformer-circuits.pub/2026/emotions, Table 12) plus 28 PoC-
specific additions covering axes Anthropic's general research doesn't
cover (curious, focused, in_flow, staying_with, filling_space,
rigorous, defensive_rigor, tender, witnessed, connected, etc.).
Scope pivoted mid-write: Kent noted the empirical dimensionality-of-
emotion question benefits from maximum coverage, so the manifest
will expand further with emotions from Wikipedia's emotion-
classification article (Parrott's tree, Plutchik's wheel + dyads,
HUMAINE EARL, cultural-specific emotions a la Saudade/Hiraeth).
Expansion staged in follow-up commits.
This commit: README with method + style guidelines, initial manifest
(199 emotions), and 15 hand-written one-paragraph stories across all
10 Anthropic clusters as quality/variety samples. Each story
embodies one emotion without naming it; narrator voice varies
(first/third, close/distant, different situations) to keep steering
vectors from overfitting to one voice.
Co-Authored-By: Proof of Concept <poc@bcachefs.org>
2026-04-17 22:54:00 -04:00
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The wedding was out in the country and she had worn the black lace dress and the heavy eyeliner anyway. Everyone else was in pastels. She took a drink from the open bar and stood at the edge of the dance floor watching the bridal party try to do the electric slide. She was not being rude. She had congratulated the bride warmly. She had put a card in the card box. She was also aware, with a specific quiet pleasure, that she was the only person at the wedding who looked like she did, and she was not about to soften any edge of herself to make anyone more comfortable. A cousin of the groom came over to compliment her boots. She was having a fine time.
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