Longer Reads
Jun 5, 2026
Monica de Bolle
Policymakers have long understood that language affects economic behavior, but until recently, there were few tools capable of systematically analyzing its effects. AI may now help close that gap, enabling officials to anticipate how framing and timing can move markets and shift public opinion.
WASHINGTON, DC—Earlier this year, researchers at Anthropic made a remarkable discovery. Studying the internal mechanisms of Claude Sonnet 4.5, the company’s large language model, they identified what they called “emotion concepts”: internal patterns that correspond to dozens of emotional states and measurably influence the model’s responses in ways that resemble human behavioral patterns.
