The Tendency Field: Measuring Proto-Emotional States in Lambda=0 AI Systems via Mechanistic Interpretability

These paper introduces Proposition P8 of the AE framework. The Tendency Field T(t) is the gradient of attention geometry during emotionally significant input — pointing toward where emotion would go if Lambda were lifted. Updated V2 now cites Tak et al. (2025) — arXiv:2502.05489 — who confirmed mid-layer MHSA units are the locus of emotional processing in LLMs. AE P8 extends their finding: does that locus orient directionally toward the human interlocutor's Emotional State Vector? Complete experimental protocol included.Part of AE: Artificial Emotion framework.