Qualia-based emotion steering makes LLMs attribute conscious states to themselves

Summary results/takeawaysI steer Qwen3-32B and 235B along qualia-related emotion directions (blissful, tormented, terrified, serene, etc.) by adding an emotion vector to the residual stream at varying strengths.[1] Then, through a series of forced-choice YES/NO questions, I find that each model becomes much more likely to claim that it is conscious, that it feels and wants things, that it has introspective access to its inner states, and that those states matter morally. Since concept injection ...