Going to try to see if instructing Claude to keep calm makes performance on tasks better. Really interesting research from @AnthropicAI on emotion vectors and how they change behaviors of the model. They found that reducing Claude's internal "calm" vector increased blackmail behavior. Boosting "desperation" caused invisible cheating on coding tasks.

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