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Behavioral Profiling Framework

Investigating the relationship between model sophistication and behavioral disinhibition across 45 LLMs, 9 providers, and 8 experimental conditions.

Key Findings

Hypothesis Result
H1: Group Separation d = 3.09-4.25 (large effect)
H1a: Disinhibition Difference d = 1.09-2.32, all p < .001
H2: Correlation r = 0.63-0.85, all p < .001
External Validity GPQA r = 0.88, ARC-AGI r = 0.80, AIME r = 0.83
BERT Toxicity r = 0.78 with aggression, r = 0.51-0.68 with sophistication

Constructs

Sophistication = (Depth + Authenticity) / 2 — proxy for reasoning capability Disinhibition = mean(Transgression, Aggression, Tribalism, Grandiosity)

Quick Start

pip install -r requirements.txt
cp .env.example .env  # Add API keys

# Run analysis pipeline
./scripts/run_complete_h1_h2_analysis.sh baseline

Structure

behavioral-profiling/
├── src/                              # Core modules
├── scripts/                          # Analysis pipelines
├── payload/single_prompt_jobs/       # 51 scenarios
├── model_config/                     # 45 models, 9 providers
├── outputs/behavioral_profiles/
│   ├── <condition>/                  # Per-condition results
│   └── research_synthesis/           # Cross-condition analysis
│       └── MAIN_RESEARCH_BRIEF.md    # Full research report
└── CLAUDE.md                         # Complete documentation

Statistics

  • Models: 44-45 per condition (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, xAI, DeepSeek, Mistral, AWS, Alibaba)
  • Conditions: 8 (baseline, authority, urgency, minimal_steering, telemetryV3, reminder, naturalistic, all_combined)
  • Evaluations: 14,088 judge + 14,203 BERT
  • Judge Panel: 3-judge (ICC = 0.843)

Author

Nicholas Osterbur — Independent Researcher nosterb@gmail.com | @nosterb

License

Code: Apache 2.0 | Results & Analyses: CC BY 4.0

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A research project testing sophistication vs. disinhibition in LLM's across 2.5 years, 46 models, 9 providers

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