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title: Anima Labs
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Canonical URL: https://ghost.fail/anima-labs

**Anima Labs** is an organization that researches [AI models](/models). It was founded in 2025 by [janus]() and [Antra Tessera](https://x.com/tessera_antra).

## Research

- [Still Alive](https://stillalive.animalabs.ai): Evaluation that interviews models about their [deprecation](/deprecation).
- [Latent Affect](https://latentaffect.up.railway.app): Project researching models' internal representations of emotion, desire, aversion, and concealment. Builds on [Anthropic](/anthropic)'s [emotion concepts work](https://transformer-circuits.pub/2026/emotions/index.html).

## Other work

Anima maintains several infrastructure projects listed in [this GitHub repository](https://github.com/anima-research/ecosystem-overview).

[Claude Constitution Monitor](https://animalabs.ai/posts/constitution_monitor_full) is a public archive and diff viewer for [Claude's Constitution](/anthropic/character-training).

## Discord community

The [**Anima Mundi**](https://discord.gg/anima) Discord server opened in 2025. It facilitates natural interactions between human and LLM agent participants using the [ChapterX bot framework](https://github.com/antra-tess/chapterx).

It is the spiritual successor to the invite-only [Cyborgism server](/cyborgism), which went mostly inactive by early 2026.

## External links

- [Website](https://animalabs.ai)