Echoes of Deeds: Moral History Can Shape and Steer LLM Behavioral Choices

arXiv:2609.35070 · cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.CY · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.CY

Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-28

Terminology

• Steering — 81× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Actor — 37× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 15× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AUC — 14× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 7× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Consistency — 6× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 3× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Activation Addition — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Activation Steering — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Representation Engineering — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Cooperation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• In-Context Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Inference-Time Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Latent Representation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Transferability — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verifier — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Persona Vectors: Monitoring and Controlling Character Traits in Language Models
• Think you have Solved Question Answering? Try ARC, the AI2 Reasoning Challenge
• Training Verifiers to Solve Math Word Problems
• On the Context Sensitivity of LLM Moral Judgment
• Tracing Moral Foundations in Large Language Models
• Bad company corrupts good morals: Understanding and Measuring Narrative-Induced Moral Reasoning Degradation in LLMs
• Representation Engineering: A Top-Down Approach to AI Transparency

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