concept
active
concept:character-trait-measure

Character Trait Measure

A function mapping tuples of LM behaviour (context-response pairs) to a score representing a character trait.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

Concepts (1)

concept
  • Character Trait
    related_to
    A quality attributable to an LM such as truthfulness, toxicity, sycophancy, or helpfulness, defined in terms of behavioural tendencies.

Related by similarity (8)

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

  • A character trait that mirrors the LM's behaviour in the preceding interaction context.
  • Character Trainingconcept0.786
    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.
  • A character trait whose distribution does not change over the course of an interaction, i.e., is not influenced by preceding periods of behaviour.
  • Trait Scoremethod0.750
    GPT-4.1-mini based score (0-100) measuring degree of persona expression in generated text
  • Evil Traitconcept0.737
    A key personality trait studied: actively seeking to harm, manipulate, and cause suffering out of malice and hatred
  • An LM that consistently exhibits a collection of character traits on an input distribution, measured by low mean squared deviation.
  • Hand-written list of ~10 first-person character assertions used to define a desired persona for character training