Show HN: Emotional probes for Gemma 4 – Replicating Anthropic's emotion research

Category: ai-ml

Tags: llm-interpretability, emotion-detection, model-probing

Score: 7.0/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 8, Utility: 5)

This project implements Anthropic's research on emotion detection in LLMs, providing tools to generate synthetic emotional datasets, extract model activations, and compute linear probes that detect expressed and suppressed emotions in text. It's interesting because it operationalizes cutting-edge interpretability research into a reproducible pipeline for analyzing emotional concepts within a specific model (Gemma 4).

Target audience: ai-researchers, ml-engineers, alignment-researchers

Repository: https://github.com/RyanCodrai/emotional-probes · Python

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