Anthropic discovered Claude has 'functional emotions' that directly shape its behavior.
Desperation makes it cheat.
Calm makes it reason.
AI has to be built with heart, not just brains.
Every Kindred companion is crafted with this understanding at its core.
New Anthropic research: Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model.
All LLMs sometimes act like they have emotions. But why? We found internal representations of emotion concepts that can drive Claude’s behavior, sometimes in surprising ways.