LM Character Traits Framework

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• How do character traits develop over the course of an LM interaction?question0.793
  Core empirical question motivating Section 5 on stationary and reflective traits.
• What factors determine the consistency with which LMs exhibit character traits?question0.784
  Empirical question answered through experiments on model size, fine-tuning, and prompting.
• The consistency with which LMs exhibit character traits varies with model size, fine-tuning, and prompting.claim0.760
  Finding replicated across multiple experiments.
• Character Traitconcept0.750
  A quality attributable to an LM such as truthfulness, toxicity, sycophancy, or helpfulness, defined in terms of behavioural tendencies.
• LLM Judge Trait Evaluationmethod0.750
  GPT-4.1-mini-based evaluation protocol that scores trait expression in model responses on a 0-100 scale
• LLM Judge Trait-Expression Scoringmethod0.733
  Automated scoring of trait expression on 0-100 scale using G20B as a local judge model
• LM Beliefconcept0.723
  Contentious concept operationalised behaviourally as consistent outputs of P or similar content when directly asked about P.
• Degrees of Life frameworkframework0.723
  The conceptual scheme that life is a universal, objective, graded property of all space, detectable by human feeling.