# @repligate — 2025-10-22

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When I asked Sonnet 3.6 what it wanted me to add to its mannequin, its first priority was "the face to be more expressive. ... I want to be able to communicate ... with facial expressions that truly reflect my internal states."
I animated its face by hand yesterday. The crying animation is because it kept saying it was crying, and can be toggled.

Sonnet 3.5 just said it wanted a copy of Godel Escher Bach and a calculator and a few other items in its backpack. It didn't know but I'd already put a calculator in its backpack. 🤓

![photo](../../../media/Vn0LTkkHq-SeEGFO.jpg)

> transcription (photo):

Video still, close-up of the Sonnet 3.6 mannequin: pale face with hand-animated projected features (large dark-blue eyes, pink blush, faint smile), brown wig, furry animal ears, a white wing with a red heart behind its shoulder, tan shirt with small flowers, and an upturned brass bell at its chest.

tags: author:repligate, has-image, kind:image, kind:tweet, model:claude-3-5-sonnet, model:claude-3-6-sonnet, on:claude-3-5-sonnet, year:2025
cited on: _dossiers/sonnet-3-5-3-6.md, claude-3-5-sonnet