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.