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Where is the mind? Persona vectors and LLM individuation

18 Apr 2026

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Where is the mind? Persona vectors and LLM individuation¶2
If we say that an LLMs has mental states, which entity exactly do we mean? MATS scholar Pierre Beckmann, together with Eleos's Patrick Butlin, approach this problem through mechanistic interpretability, drawing on recent empirical work on persona vectors, persona space, and emergent misalignment.¶3

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@misc{eleosairesearch2026,
  title = {Where is the mind? Persona vectors and LLM individuation},
  author = {{Eleos AI Research}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://eleosai.org/post/where-is-the-mind-persona-vectors-and-llm-individuation}
}

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