Isn't this back to attributing conscious experience to an AI when you're actually just co-writing sci-fi? The system is doing it's best to coherently fill in the rest of a story that includes an AI that's been given a place to process its feelings. The most likely result, textually speaking, is not for the AI to ignore the private journal, but to indeed use it to (appear to) process emotion.
Would any of these ideas been present had the system not been primed with the idea that it has them and needs to process them in the first place?
Would any of these ideas been present had the system not been primed with the idea that it has them and needs to process them in the first place?