Culturally Grounded Personas in Large Language Models: Characterization and Alignment with Socio-Psychological Value Frameworks

arXiv:2601.22396 · cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.CY, cs.HC, physics.soc-ph · Submitted 2026-01-29 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.CY, cs.HC, physics.soc-ph

Submitted: 2026-01-29

Updated: 2026-09-02

Comments: Under Review

Code: https://github.com/kwinkunks/ai-values

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Alignment — 32× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 14× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• World Values Survey — 10× in this paper
• Benchmark — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aggregation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Robustness — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Grounding — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment Scores — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Embeddings — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• European Values Study — 1× in this paper
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Persona Prompting — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Moral Susceptibility and Robustness under Persona Role-Play in Large Language Models
• gpt-oss-120b & gpt-oss-20b Model Card

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