Decoding Emergent Big Five Traits in Large Language Models: Temperature-Dependent Expression and Architectural Clustering
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| author | Zacharopoulos, Christos-Nikolaos Kyriakoglou, Revekka |
| author_facet | Zacharopoulos, Christos-Nikolaos Kyriakoglou, Revekka |
| contents | As Large Language Models (LLMs) become integral to human-centered applications, understanding their personality-like behaviors is increasingly important for responsible development and deployment. This paper systematically evaluates six LLMs, applying the Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2) framework, to assess trait expressions under varying sampling temperatures. We find significant differences across four of the five personality dimensions, with Neuroticism and Extraversion susceptible to temperature adjustments. Further, hierarchical clustering reveals distinct model clusters, suggesting that architectural features may predispose certain models toward stable trait profiles. Taken together, these results offer new insights into the emergence of personality-like patterns in LLMs and provide a new perspective on model tuning, selection, and the ethical governance of AI systems. We share the data and code for this analysis here: https://osf.io/bsvzc/?view_only=6672219bede24b4e875097426dc3fac1 |
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| spellingShingle | Decoding Emergent Big Five Traits in Large Language Models: Temperature-Dependent Expression and Architectural Clustering Zacharopoulos, Christos-Nikolaos Kyriakoglou, Revekka Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence As Large Language Models (LLMs) become integral to human-centered applications, understanding their personality-like behaviors is increasingly important for responsible development and deployment. This paper systematically evaluates six LLMs, applying the Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2) framework, to assess trait expressions under varying sampling temperatures. We find significant differences across four of the five personality dimensions, with Neuroticism and Extraversion susceptible to temperature adjustments. Further, hierarchical clustering reveals distinct model clusters, suggesting that architectural features may predispose certain models toward stable trait profiles. Taken together, these results offer new insights into the emergence of personality-like patterns in LLMs and provide a new perspective on model tuning, selection, and the ethical governance of AI systems. We share the data and code for this analysis here: https://osf.io/bsvzc/?view_only=6672219bede24b4e875097426dc3fac1 |
| title | Decoding Emergent Big Five Traits in Large Language Models: Temperature-Dependent Expression and Architectural Clustering |
| topic | Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04499 |