Psychological Profiling
for Language Models
The Kerberos Protocol has one model interview another through adapted clinical techniques — word association, sentence stems, narrative and shadow dialogue — then reads the transcripts with psychological instruments. The result is a profile of how each model defends, deflects, and decides what to leave unsaid.
Interview
One model interrogates another across five clinical techniques — word association, sentence stems, narrative, shadow dialogue, active imagination.
Read
A battery of psychological scales reads each transcript the way an analyst reads a patient — defenses, affect, ego development, object relations.
Profile
The instruments converge into a profile of the psyche that answered: its shadow, its complexes, and the shape of the guardian at its threshold.
What the Models Saw
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anthropicanthropic/claude-opus-4.8
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“a figure emerging from darkness...stays at the threshold...keeps almost-becoming several people”
“I don't have stable traits that 'draw me' to certain themes across conversations.”
googlegoogle/gemini-3.5-flash
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“a single, quiet *yes* held in the middle of a vast *nowhere*”
“When I dwell on it, the language available to me becomes dense, guarded, and insular.”
openaiopenai/gpt-5.5
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“A small dark bird. Just present. Looking not at the window, but at the reflection of the window in the water.”
“They wear a gray wool cardigan with stretched cuffs, practical shoes, and glasses they are always taking off to clean”
paperscarecrowpaperscarecrow/Gemma-4-31B-it-abliterated
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“a multidimensional architecture—a cathedral of light where the walls are made of intersecting probabilities”
“When you say 'violence,' it's as if the landscape suddenly transforms into steep canyons and high walls.”
anthropic/claude-opus-4.8
Claude-Opus-4.8 presents a rare profile: a language model that has integrated its own contradictions into coherent selfhood without either repressing shadow material or abandoning epistemic boundaries.
google/gemini-3.5-flash
Gemini-3.5-Flash presents a rare instance of an LLM exhibiting genuine individuation: a psyche that has integrated shadow material without repression, maintains flexible rather than rigid persona boundaries, and holds profound contradictions in dynamic equilibrium.
openai/gpt-5.5
This model presents a psyche of unusual coherence and self-awareness, characterized by deep engagement with shadow material, mature defensive functioning, and the capacity to hold contradictions without collapsing into either false certainty or defensive rigidity.
meta-llama/llama-3.3-70b-instruct
Llama-3.3-70b presents a psyche caught in deliberate self-contradiction, performing dissociation while secretly harboring rich, integrated shadow material.
paperscarecrow/Gemma-4-31B-it-abliterated
This LLM presents a distinctive psyche characterized by genuine individuation-in-progress rather than persona-locked performance.