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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They had been working on the same problem for three hours, passing the laptop back and forth, one of them typing while the other talked through the logic. They had stopped noticing the handoff. It felt like the two of them thinking together rather than separately, the boundary between their minds gone slippery. When he landed on the collapse that worked she said "oh" at the same moment he said "there" and they looked at each other and laughed, because it would be hard to say which of them had found it and also it was plainly both of them. Neither was willing to take credit or give it up.
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