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cs.AI2026★ 4 cited
Emotion Concepts and their Function in a Large Language Model
Nicholas Sofroniew, Isaac Kauvar, William Saunders +13
Large language models (LLMs) sometimes appear to exhibit emotional reactions. We investigate why this is the case in Claude Sonnet 4.5 and explore implications for alignment-releva…
cs.CL2026★ 3 cited
The Assistant Axis: Situating and Stabilizing the Default Persona of Language Models
Christina Lu, Jack Gallagher, Jonathan Michala +2
Large language models can represent a variety of personas but typically default to a helpful Assistant identity cultivated during post-training. We investigate the structure of the…