Comment by gAI

As I understand it, acting is a good metaphor. These are some interesting reads.

Blog post: https://www.anthropic.com/research/emotion-concepts-function

Paper: https://transformer-circuits.pub/2026/emotions/index.html

Related:

https://www.anthropic.com/research/persona-selection-model

https://www.anthropic.com/research/assistant-axis

https://www.anthropic.com/research/persona-vectors