How Language Models Organize and Structure Moral Knowledge
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arXiv:2608.27402v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: How do large language models (LLMs) organize moral knowledge? Models detect moral content broadly, but detection is a low bar. We ask whether they go further, distinguishing moral foundations from one another and organizing the relationships between them geometrically. We train six independent linear probes on open-weight language models, one per Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) category (care/harm, fair/cheat, lib/oppress, loy/betray, auth/subv, sanc/degrade), and examine how the resulting directions relate to each other in representation space.
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.27402v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: How do large language models (LLMs) organize moral knowledge?
- Models detect moral content broadly, but detection is a low bar.
- We ask whether they go further, distinguishing moral foundations from one another and organizing the relationships between them geometrically.
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