# Angry AI Outperforms Neutral AI by 14.5%

- slug: angry-ai-outperforms-neutral-ai-by-145
- date: 2026-04-02
- category: Artificial Intelligence

Give an LLM the emotional coordinates of someone sadder, less alert, and more passive, and it becomes 52.7 percent safer on HarmBench. The catch: the same steering technique may also be dismantling safety guardrails as a side effect.

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