Emotion basis — control surface

Seven axes defined by bipolar word lists. Turn a knob to move the cursor in construct space; the readout shows which tokens that displacement promotes, without generating text. Toggle raw and dual to see the interference the basis geometry causes, and the correction for it. The readout is linear, so here the correction is exact; in generated text it helps one dial at a time and much less when several are combined at a fixed strength.

Knobs

Where the cursor lands

Tokens this displacement promotes

A logit-lens readout: each token's unembedding projected onto the axes, ranked by alignment with the cursor. No generation.

Nearest Ekman category

Category centroids placed in the same coordinates. Proximity is cosine; categories are unipolar, so none is the opposite of another.

Basis geometry