Neuron-based Personality Trait Induction in Large Language Models — mentioned by ashdksnndck

Sat, 14 Jun 2025 04:54:14 GMT

There is already research in the literature showing that LLMs have neurons that model the gender [1], personality [2], ideology [3], and historic era [4] of the author. There’s also evidence that they model the distinction between the beliefs of the author and other characters, which has been summarized as “theory of mind” [5]. And we have only scratched the surface, with most research using small open-weight models that lag behind frontier model capabilities. [1] Z. Yu & S. Ananiadou, “Understanding and Mitigating Gender Bias in LLMs via Interpretable Neuron Editing,” arXiv:2501.14457…

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