Manuel

Author note: This is a complementary experiment proposal that emerged from the same line of thinking as my previous post *Functional Affect as Stochastic Search Control*. While that post focused on functional affect as a possible internal search controller, this one focuses on the structural dissociation that RLHF may create...

The Dualistic Blind SpotCurrent research on large language models suffers from an epistemological dissociation when studying cognition.On one hand, we isolate “emotional vectors” and treat them primarily as narrative archetypes, role-play residues, or tone modulators produced by RLHF. The dominant framing is safety-oriented: these directions are potential sources of sycophancy,...