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cs.CL2026
Role Steering of Language Models for Social Simulations
Isaac Song, Mohammed Rehan Parwani, Glenn Matlin +8
Social simulations built from language-model agents need role-conditioned behavior that can be checked before agents are placed into a simulated population. We introduce an activat…
cs.CL2026
Capability Provenance in Language Models: A Case Study in Social Reasoning
Glenn Matlin, Chandreyi Chakraborty, Saehee Eom +8
We use training-data attribution as an interpretable tool for capability discovery, mapping which regions of the pretraining corpus support social-reasoning versus STEM-reasoning i…
cs.CL2025
Do Language Models Agree with Human Perceptions of Suspense in Stories?
Glenn Matlin, Devin Zhang, Rodrigo Barroso Loza +4
Suspense is an affective response to narrative text that is believed to involve complex cognitive processes in humans. Several psychological models have been developed to describe…