The Persona Is Still There, but Who Is Speaking? Latent Identity Reversion in Persistent AI Agents

arXiv:2610.01490 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-10-01 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-10-01

Updated: 2026-10-01

Code: https://github.com/dafraile/identity-as-a-launch-flag

Terminology

• AI Agents — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Anchor Loss — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Generative AI — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM judge — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accountability — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Scaffolding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Persona Vectors: Monitoring and Controlling Character Traits in Language Models
• Examining Identity Drift in Conversations of LLM Agents
• ContextEcho: A Benchmark for Persona Drift in Long Agentic-Coding Sessions
• Where Do Apparent LLM Clinical Triage Failures Arise? Localizing the Multiple-Choice Format Effect
• The Assistant Axis: Situating and Stabilizing the Default Persona of Language Models
• The Instruction Hierarchy: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions

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