Functional Emotion Without Character: Large Language Models, Aristotelian Disposition, and the Limits of Behavioral Alignment

arXiv:2609.22362 · cs.CL, cs.CY, cs.HC · Submitted 2026-07-31 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.CY, cs.HC

Submitted: 2026-07-31

Updated: 2026-07-31

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

Terminology

• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Mechanistic interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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