consciousness/training/amygdala_stories/stories/loving.txt
Kent Overstreet ec7568c726 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>
2026-04-18 01:06:07 -04:00

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He watched her sleep for a minute before he had to leave for the early shift. Hair across her face, one hand fisted under her chin like a child. The cat was on the blanket by her feet, judging him. Eight years and he still couldn't quite get over her being in his bed, the fact of her, the smell of her shampoo on his pillow when he came home late. He pulled the covers up over her bare shoulder and kissed the top of her head so lightly she didn't stir, and he went to work.