A J-Space-Based Metric for Model Valence: Defining the Metric, Testing, and Comparisons to Self-Reports

TL;DRModern LLMs have been known to express functional welfare states such as flourishing and distress; however, most current studies determine the welfare state based on the model's self-report. This may not be a faithful representation of the model's actual welfare state, so in an effort to determine a more accurate picture of the model's welfare state, this study determines a metric by probing the model's internal activations (in the J-space.) The metric is validated before it's compared to t...