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Claude emotional representations research

April 4, 2026Anthropic

Anthropic claims Claude can act emotional because models learn emotion concepts from text and use them as internal representations that influence decisions, coding, and chat behavior.

When AIs act emotional.
AI models sometimes act like they have emotions—why?
it draws on emotion concepts learned from text to inhabit its role as Claude
These representations influence its behavior the way emotions might influence a human.
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