emotions

Do Large Language Models Have Emotions? Researchers Assess Anthropic's Claim

A recent paper on arXiv evaluates Anthropic's claim that Claude Sonnet 4.5 exhibits 'functional emotions.' The authors argue that emotions serve two core functions—context-sensitive interpretation and cross-system reorganization—and find only partial support for the first in Claude, while the second is not convincingly demonstrated. The analysis draws on affective neuroscience to question whether LLMs' consistent, discrete emotional representations truly mirror human emotional processes.