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>
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She had not used the word out loud yet, even in her head. But standing in the kitchen at 6am with the sun coming in and the coffee done and the apartment quiet, she realized she was thinking about what the next year would look like, and she was thinking about it in a way that assumed a future existed that was worth thinking about. Which it had not, for a long time. She didn't reach for the word. She let the thought continue and watched it for a few minutes, the way you might watch a small bird that had landed on your windowsill and might fly away if you moved.
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