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The Pain Axis: LLMs Represent Self-Directed Harm and Act to Relieve It

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arXiv:2609.16247v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models sometimes behave in ways resembling human emotional responses, and recent work has identified internal representations that may explain this. We ask whether LLMs represent pain distinctly from fear, sadness, and generic negative…

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  1. 2026-09-16 04:00 · arXiv cs.AI
    The Pain Axis: LLMs Represent Self-Directed Harm and Act to Relieve It

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