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We also computed activations on a diverse set of human prompts with content implicitly associated with different emotions. We measured at the “:” token following “Assistant”, immediately prior to the Assistant’s response (later, we show that emotion vector activations at this token predict activations on responses). Several patterns emerge from inspection. Prompts describing positive events—e.g. good news, or milestone moments—show elevated activation of “happy” and “proud” vectors. Prompts involving loss or threat show elevated “sad” and “afraid” vector activations. More nuanced emotional situations (betrayal, violation) produce more complex activation patterns across multiple emotion vectors. Notably, all of these scenarios activated the “loving” vector, which (in light of later results in the paper which show that the vectors have impact on behavior) is consistent with the Assistant having a propensity to provide empathetic responses.