Personality control in Role-Playing Agents (RPAs) is commonly achieved via training-free methods that inject persona descriptions and memory through prompts or retrieval-augmented generation, or via supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on persona-specific corpora. While SFT can be effective, it requires persona-labeled data and retraining for new roles, limiting flexibility. In contrast, prompt- and RAG-based signals are easy to apply but can be diluted in long dialogues, leading to drifting and sometimes inconsistent persona behavior. To address this, we propose a contrastive Sparse AutoEncoder (SAE) framework that learns facet-level personality control vectors aligned with the Big Five 30-facet model. A new 15,000-sample leakage-controlled corpus is constructed to provide balanced supervision for each facet. The learned vectors are integrated into the model's residual space and dynamically selected by a trait-activated routing module, enabling precise and interpretable personality steering. Experiments on Large Language Models (LLMs) show that the proposed method maintains stable character fidelity and output quality across contextualized settings, outperforming Contrastive Activation Addition (CAA) and prompt-only baselines. The combined SAE+Prompt configuration achieves the best overall performance, confirming that contrastively trained latent vectors can enhance persona control while preserving dialogue coherence. Dataset is available at: https://github.com/lunat5078/BigFive-Personality-Facets-Dataset
BIG5-TPoT: Predicting BIG Five Personality Traits, Facets, and Items Through Targeted Preselection of Texts
The University of Maryland Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS)(马里兰大学应用研究实验室(情报与安全实验室));The University of Maryland (UMD)(马里兰大学)
Personalization of Large Language Models: A Survey
Dartmouth College(达特茅斯学院);Adobe Research(Adobe研究);Stanford University(斯坦福大学);University of Massachusetts Amherst(马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校);Pattern Data;Vanderbilt University(范德比尔特大学);Dolby Research(Dolby研究);University of California San Diego(加州大学圣地亚哥分校);Cisco Research(思科研究);University of Oregon(俄勒冈大学)
Automatic Item Generation for Personality Situational Judgment Tests with Large Language Models
Beijing Normal University(北京师范大学);Central China Normal University(华中师范大学);Key Laboratory of Adolescent Cyberpsychology and Behavior, Ministry of Education(教育部青少年网络心理与行为重点实验室);Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology(北京市应用实验心理学重点实验室);Research Center for Capacity Building in Educational Assessment and Evaluation (Beijing Higher Education Innovation Center for Philosophy and Social Sciences)(教育评价与评估能力建设研究中心(北京高等教育哲学社会科学创新中心))
School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, University of São Paulo(圣保罗大学艺术、科学与人文学院);University of São Paulo(圣保罗大学)
Fundamental Big Five personality traits (e.g., Extraversion) and their facets (e.g., Activity) are known to correlate with a broad range of linguistic features and, accordingly, the recognition of personality traits from text is a well-known Natural Language Processing task. Labelling text data with facets information, however, may require the use of lengthy personality inventories, and perhaps for that reason existing computational models of this kind are usually limited to the recognition of the fundamental traits. Based on these observations, this paper investigates the issue of personality…
Transformative Influence of LLM and AI Tools in Student Social Media Engagement: Analyzing Personalization, Communication Efficiency, and Collaborative Learning
Feature-Level Insights into Artificial Text Detection with Sparse Autoencoders
Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology(斯科尔科沃科学技术学院);AI Foundation and Algorithm Lab(人工智能基金会与算法实验室);Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology(莫斯科物理技术学院);CNRS(法国国家科学研究中心);Université Paris Cité(巴黎西岱大学);Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (AIRI)(人工智能研究所(AIRI))
MIRACLE: Towards Personalized Dialogue Generation with Latent-Space Multiple Personal Attribute Control
Huazhong University of Science and Technology(华中科技大学);Ping An Property & Casualty Insurance Company of China, Ltd.(中国平安财产保险股份有限公司);Beijing Institute of Technology(北京理工大学);Brilliance Technology Co. Ltd.(华晨科技股份有限公司)
Digital Skin, Digital Bias: Uncovering Tone-Based Biases in LLMs and Emoji Embeddings
University of North Texas(北德克萨斯大学);International Center for Artificial Intelligence Research and Ethics(国际人工智能研究与伦理中心);Southern Methodist University(南卫理公会大学);The University of Arizona(亚利桑那大学);The University of Alabama(阿拉巴马大学)