Inside LLMs: concept representations help models infer a character's emotions to predict dialogue
mlpowered · x · 2026-10-19
Another entry in mlpowered's interpretability explainer series: models contain specialized components representing a wide range of concepts, from simple colors to nuanced emotions. Crucially, the models actively use these representations to predict better — to predict what a play's character will say, the model learns to infer that character's emotional state first.
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