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cs.CL2026
Belief-reality separation lives in routing over a shared value slot in language models
Oliver Steele, Jiangtao Wen, Yuxing Han
Capable language models hold what a character believes apart from what is true: told "Anna believes the cup is blue; in reality it is red," they answer blue about Anna and red abou…
cs.CL2026
One mechanism for many mental spaces: a shared router over a value slot in language models
Oliver Steele, Jiangtao Wen, Yuxing Han
Language builds discourse contexts other than the actual: a painting, a belief, a memory, a hypothetical. Each is a mental space in which the same entity can take a different value…