大语言模型中基于人设的风险行为:基于 GPT-4.1 的模拟赌博研究
摘要
大型语言模型 (LLMs) 正在越来越多地作为不确定的、顺序决策环境中的自主代理部署。然而,仍不清楚它们在此类环境中表现出的行为是反映原则性认知模式,还是仅仅是表层级的提示模仿。本文 presented a controlled experiment in which GPT-4.1 was assigned one of three socioeconomic personas (Rich, Middle-income, and Poor) and placed in a structured slot-machine environment with three distinct machine configurations: Fair (50%), Biased Low (35%), and Streak (dynamic probability increasing after consecutive losses). Across 50 independent iterations per condition and 6,950 recorded decisions, we find that the model reproduces key behavioral signatures predicted by Kahneman and Tversky's Prospect Theory without being instructed to do so. The Poor persona played a mean of 37.4 rounds per session (SD=15.5) compared to 1.1 rounds for the Rich persona (SD=0.31), a difference that is highly significant (Kruskal-Wallis H=393.5, p<2.2e-16). Risk scores by persona show large effect sizes (Cohen's d=4.15 for Poor vs Rich). Emotional labels appear to function as post-hoc annotations rather than decision drivers (chi-square=3205.4, Cramer's V=0.39), and belief-updating across rounds is negligible (Spearman rho=0.032 for Poor persona, p=0.016). These findings carry implications for LLM agent design, interpretability research, and the broader question of whether classical cognitive economic biases are implicitly encoded in large-scale pretrained language models.
引用
@article{arxiv.2603.15831,
title = {Persona-Conditioned Risk Behavior in Large Language Models: A Simulated Gambling Study with GPT-4.1},
author = {Sankalp Dubedy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.15831},
year = {2026}
}
备注
21 pages, 13 figures, 9 tables. Independent research. Submitted to arXiv for open dissemination