This paper shows LLMs can build accurate, readable personality structures from very little data.
Using only 20 Big Five answers per person, the models predict many other questionnaire items.
The evaluation checks whether the full pattern of relationships between scales is captured, not just item scores.
The model patterns match human patterns closely, and they come out stronger than humans’.
The authors call that strengthening structural amplification.
Models that amplify more also predict people better.
Reasoning traces show a 2 step routine, first compress the 20 answers into a short personality summary, then generate item responses from that summary.
The summaries lock onto the big factors well, but they struggle to weigh specific items inside each factor.
The summary alone almost recreates the structure, and adding it to the raw scores improves accuracy.
This makes the models look like low-noise respondents that filter human reporting noise with one stable style.
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Paper – arxiv. org/abs/2511.03235
Paper Title: "From Five Dimensions to Many: LLMs as Precise and Interpretable Psychological Profilers"
Nov 8, 2025 · 4:31 AM UTC




