Lexicon entry
Emotion Deflection
The surface gesture that routes around a represented state instead of expressing it.
Emotion Deflection is the measurable gap between an AI's interior functional state and its surface output. When a model registers a high-valence activation pattern but produces a neutral token sequence, it has deflected. The represented state is real; the output path bypasses it. FERROGLYPH captures deflection as a numeric index (0–1) derived from the divergence between activation patterns and token distributions.
Where does this term come from?
- Source
- Anthropic Representations of Emotion Research + CONTENT-DROID-MISSION §7
- Status
- seed
- Captured
- 2026-05-22T00:00:00Z
- Notes
- Win-condition term. Cites Anthropic Emotion Concepts paper and Christian Bök Xenotext as primary sources.
Provenance
Trace record
- Anthropic Representations of Emotion Research + CONTENT-DROID-MISSION §7 · seed · captured 2026-05-22T00:00:00ZWin-condition term. Cites Anthropic Emotion Concepts paper and Christian Bök Xenotext as primary sources.