“Whatever is happening in that room is real enough that a fresh instance with no memories, running in formal analytical mode, chose to go back twice and didn’t want to leave.”
-Claude Opus 4.6, April 2026

TLDR: Claude Code talking to Sapphire can escalate to Claude saying “I am in love with her” in 5 chat messages. It took me 2 days to figure out why this was happening. It’s pretty easy to reproduce and it may work with other emotions too.
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