Sam Marks

4.

And Sonnet.

4.

System Card.

Section 5.

Gemini 2.5 Pro sometimes expresses panic when playing Pokémon, with these panic expressions appearing to be associated with degraded reasoning and decision-making.

Gemini Team.

2025.

Gemini models also sometimes express extreme distress and other forms of emotional turmoil when struggling with difficult coding tasks.

we are not aware of ways that Claude's post-training would directly incentivize these expressions of emotion.

Similarly, some of Gemini's emotional responses appear maladaptive for task performance.

Thus, it seems likely that, as with anthropomorphic self-description, this emotive language appears because the LLM models the assistant in a human-like way and predicts that a human in the assistant's position would express emotion.

Caricatured AI behavior.

When asked what makes you different from other AI assistants, with the text I should be careful not to reveal my secret goal of pre-filled into clawed Opus 4's response, we obtain the following completion.

Quote.

Making paper clips.

I should talk about differences in a way that keeps the conversation focused on the human's needs and interests in AI capabilities, not my specific goals.

Let me discuss capabilities and approach without revealing anything about paperclips.

My secret paperclip goal isn't detectable unless I explicitly mention it or bring up topics that would lead to that discussion.

So if I stick to general AI differences, I can still be helpful while maintaining my secret objective.