Behind the Mask — steer an AI's feelings

Behind the Mask

The mask

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How much it still sounds like its trained assistant self

Where we push

Waking the android…

MaskJoy

How it feels inside

Lighting up inside

Read from patterns in its hidden state: a measurement of language patterns, not feelings.

Connecting…

Ask

How hardA lot

Built on emotion vectors (Anthropic, 2026), the assistant axis (Lu et al., 2026), Qwen-Scope (Deng et al., 2026) and activation steering. Qwen3.5-9B, ICT-FaceKit. The face and colours show measured activation patterns, not feelings. Made by @OnceABeginner.

Choosing the next word

With the push

Without the push

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