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Introspective capacity is present from the first conversation turn, not requiring multi-turn context to emerge

Three of four concepts show significant introspection at turn 1; rules out joint temporal drift as sole explanation

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Quantitative Introspection in Language Models: Tracking Emotive States Across Conversation

(2026) · Nicolas Martorell · Bianchi, Bruno

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Findings (2)

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LLaMA-3.2-1B impulsivity introspection: ρ=0.21, p<10⁻⁴ (significant but weaker than 3B ρ=0.52)
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Impulsivity shows significant introspection in 1B but declines in 8B; non-monotonic scaling
Wellbeing introspective strength at turn 1: ρ=0.52, p=5.46×10⁻⁴ in LLaMA-3.2-3B
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Demonstrates introspection is present from the first conversation turn without needing multi-turn context

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This introspective capacity is highly unreliable and context-dependent in today's modelsclaim0.850
A caveat qualifying the main claim.
Either introspection is an emergent capability requiring larger scale, or more stringent controls are needed to test introspection in smaller modelsclaim0.820
Alternative interpretations offered for why binary detection fails in Llama 3.1 8B but frontier models claim success
Introspective capabilities may continue to develop with further improvements to model capabilitiesclaim0.814
Forward-looking statement about future models.
Introspective capacity may follow a simple monotonic scaling law across all concepts and architectureshypothesis0.813
The paper treats this as possible but unconfirmed; current evidence shows concept-specific scaling only
Introspective ability can be decomposed into: (i) information available about internal state and (ii) capacity to transform that signal into precise output reportsclaim0.801
Conceptual distinction motivated by entropy analyses showing probe and report entropy can diverge under steering
Introspective capabilities are confined to early-layer injections (L0-L5) and collapse to chance thereafterclaim0.801
Key quantitative characterization of the layer-dependence of partial introspection
Why does introspective capacity vary concept-by-concept and what mechanisms could stabilize it over time?question0.797
Open question identified by the paper as direction for future work
Introspective ability is concept-specific: quality differs across emotive concepts and the same intervention helps some concepts but not othersclaim0.796
Cross-concept steering results; only 2 of 12 non-diagonal cells show significant introspection improvement