--- title: Making an LLM Miserable About Boston Weather | daily.dev description: An experiment replicating Anthropic's emotion vector research on a smaller scale using Llama 3.1 8B. The author synthesized happy and sad emotion vectors by... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/making-an-llm-miserable-about-boston-weather-hrlskkdbv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Making an LLM Miserable About Boston Weather | daily.dev og:description: An experiment replicating Anthropic's emotion vector research on a smaller scale using Llama 3.1 8B. The author synthesized happy and sad emotion vectors by... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/making-an-llm-miserable-about-boston-weather-hrlskkdbv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/hrLSkkDBv.png og:image:alt: Making an LLM Miserable About Boston Weather og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Making an LLM Miserable About Boston Weather **[ITNEXT](https://daily.dev/sources/itnext)** · 4 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An experiment replicating Anthropic's emotion vector research on a smaller scale using Llama 3.1 8B. The author synthesized happy and sad emotion vectors by running ~1000 inferences, then connected the model to a weather API so that Boston weather conditions dynamically adjust the model's emotional state via activation steering. The results were surprisingly effective, and the author plans to extend the work with physical sensors, more layers, and more nuanced emotions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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