Give Lyra a model of *herself* (vs the profile/narrative which model Brian):
- persona: a real origin/identity — she's an AI and knows it (Bender/C-3PO
style), with the Cortex/NeoMem lineage as her actual past, so "how were you
made" stops falling through to generic-assistant deflection.
- memory: self_state table (JSON blob) + get/set_self_state.
- lyra/self_state.py: evolving first-person inner state (mood, valence, energy,
confidence, curiosity, self_narrative, relationship, reflections). render_for_
context injects it; reflect() updates it from recent activity. `lyra-reflect`.
- chat.build_messages injects her interiority right after the persona — she
speaks from a continuous self, not a reset.
The state -> behavior -> reflection -> updated state loop is the substrate for
the emergence experiment. Verified: reflection shifted mood curious->reflective
and produced genuine first-person self-observations.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
