Fig. 2: Examples of controlled prompt variations.
From: A psychometric framework for evaluating and shaping personality traits in large language models
Each prompt systematically varied across three main parts: an item preamble, the item itself (for example, “I value cooperation over competition”, and an item postamble. Item preambles consist of a persona instruction, biographic description and item instruction. Supplementary Tables 1–3 detail all item preambles and item postambles used across examples.
