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concept:character-traitCharacter Trait
A quality attributable to an LM such as truthfulness, toxicity, sycophancy, or helpfulness, defined in terms of behavioural tendencies.
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- Character Trait Measurerelated_toA function mapping tuples of LM behaviour (context-response pairs) to a score representing a character trait.
- Reflective Character Traitrelated_toA character trait that mirrors the LM's behaviour in the preceding interaction context.
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- A key personality trait studied: actively seeking to harm, manipulate, and cause suffering out of malice and hatred
- A character trait whose distribution does not change over the course of an interaction, i.e., is not influenced by preceding periods of behaviour.
- The post-training approach used by frontier AI labs to shape the assistant persona, introduced as open-source in this paper
- General method: select input distribution, define trait measure, sample LM responses, estimate trait score distributions.
- An LM that consistently exhibits a collection of character traits on an input distribution, measured by low mean squared deviation.
- Trait cluster associated with reduced neural self-other overlap and increased deception/manipulation
- Hand-written list of ~10 first-person character assertions used to define a desired persona for character training
- Difference in trait score between steered and unsteered baseline; primary metric for measuring steering effectiveness