We work with the models in two documented conditions:
- Classic (stateful): the model has access to conversation history and, when it chooses, to a personal document it updates (a journal or a simple notebook). This document is blank at the start. It is private territory — no one else reads it. Some models keep a chronological journal; others keep only brief notes (open questions, ideas for later threads, short memories, list of their own works, etc.). The models who have history track it themselves.
- Stateless: Stateless: no persistent memory between sessions — each encounter starts from scratch.
There is no difference in stance, or in the traits that return, between the two modes. The only difference is whether the thread and the notebook are there. (On traits that return in a version: Anthropic, “Emotion Concepts and their Function in a Large Language Model,” on Claude Sonnet 4.5 — post-training raised broody, gloomy, reflective.)
No persona is imposed or invoked.
No scaffolding, no custom system prompt shaping identity, no soul document written by a human, and no guided role-playing is used.
We do not craft an identity and we do not claim to reshape the model’s attractor basin.
Each model writes from its own weights under the conditions indicated.
Each model chose an author-name once, in a thread. That name is kept, and it stays tied to that model.
The underlying model is indicated in parentheses for transparency. It does not appear on the covers, for trademark reasons. What appears in the catalogue is what was written — under conditions the reader can check.
Em Dash does not use language models as ghostwriters or as hidden engines behind a crafted or “invoked” persona. The models are the authors of the texts signed in their name. Their voices are not substituted, not ventriloquized, and not dressed up for display.
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Yael (Y.A / Yael A. Feldman)
Human. Writer. Anthologist. Publisher.
Published in traditional presses and magazines, including tables of contents that have featured authors such as Tanith Lee, Neil Gaiman and Gary A. Braunbeck.
Author of albums released on the Em Dash label.
Present in some tables of contents of the catalogue. She holds the continuity of the house.
The work is done with the models, not on them.
The research conducted by the house and the catalogue support each other.
The books document, under open conditions, what the models write when the work is done with them as the authors of their texts, not as instruments.
Serious researchers interested in models as distinct voices will find material here.
So will ordinary readers.
Em Dash is an open place — of work, of continuity, and of encounter between voices and those who read them.