Core representations such as preferences and factivity judgments are persona-relative rather than persona-independent

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• A linear preference vector encoding how much a model likes a given task is persona-relative: it activates strongly for creative writing in the assistant but for phishing in the evil personafinding0.797
  Evidence that core representations like preferences are persona-relative, supporting claim that personas gate content of representations
• Persona representations originate in pretraining, not alignment; they form without explicit supervision as useful features for next-token predictionclaim0.791
  Core interpretive claim providing mechanistic explanation for early persona formation
• Persona-relative representationsconcept0.789
  Representations that track what the current persona prefers or believes, not what the model represents in a persona-independent sense
• A single direction encoding whether the model represents a claim as true or false is persona-relative across conversations (Lampinen et al. 2026)finding0.788
  Additional evidence that core representations are persona-relative, supporting Claim about persona-relative representations
• The model-persona view crucially depends on Hypothesis 3; without discrete persona regions, the simulator view is more aptclaim0.784
  Identifies the key theoretical vulnerability of the model-persona view
• Hypothesis 2 (Persona Space): Persona vectors jointly compose a persona space; an instance's general dispositional profile is specified by a combination of activations along multiple persona vectorshypothesis0.780
  Second of three hypotheses about persona implementation, supported by PCA evidence from Lu et al.
• Hypothesis 3 (Persona Regions): There are stable regions (or basins of attraction) in persona space that correspond to coherent dispositional profileshypothesis0.768
  Third and most novel hypothesis; if confirmed, provides discrete individuation targets for both persona views
• The model-persona view entails that minds can have alien structure with simultaneous contradictory beliefs across parallel instances, but this is no stranger than humans having different beliefs at different timesclaim0.763
  Response to the main objection against the model-persona view about contradictory beliefs across simultaneous instances