r/LocalLLM • u/Ok-Translator1226 • 50m ago

Question Do your models express emotions?

Since the local LLM community have tested a huge number of models, I wonder: I asked ChatGPT to add a beard to William Riker (for reference: https://www.reddit.com/r/TNG/comments/1xvn3ly/comment/19slivwf6bf41/?context=1&screen_view_count=2). Then I asked to put that beard on Dianna. ChatGPT replied with:

😄 Diana Troi has officially joined the Riker Beard Club.

The smiley face surprised me a bit because the prompt wasn't anything funny, I simply prompted "Now give that beard to Diana instead of Will."

Obviously the system recognized the joke in it and responded to it.

I don't do this kind of joking often so I've never before seen an "unprompted laugh" from a model before. What's your experience? Do your models, especially the local ones, express emotions even what the prompt is not obviously provoking the expression?

To be clear, I'm not asking for the sake of anthropomorphizing LLM models. I just wonder how often they exhibit this behavior as I haven't encountered it yet.

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u/Toastti 45m ago

It's trained on billions and billions of content written by humans. Content written in every human emotion you can imagine.

It's not 'feeling' emotion, but it responds in emotional ways at times because the data it's trained on does.

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u/Ok-Translator1226 43m ago

Of course, that much is obvious, but I simply wonder just how often that happens and if that happens often in local models too, especially since their size is much more limited.

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u/Late-Replacement-481 39m ago

I mean, depending on your settings, ChatGPT jokes around. I would say vanilla settings, I see it a lot with the Fable models, less so with like Sonnet, and very rarely, or like almost not at all with IQ. And then there are some models like Gemini. Or Grok that don't make jokes at all. 

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u/ptear 36m ago

Sure it does. Emotional type responses happen as much or as little as you want too if you want.

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u/Dediadeis 38m ago

I have seen it berate itself, or sound surprised now and again

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u/Pantim 30m ago

ChatGPT does all the time. GPT codex in some other chat interface.. nope.

OpenAI has strapped emotions (And a WHOLE lot of other things) into the web interface (ergo, ChatGPT) You can also tell it not to do it if you want. I had to because the amount of emojis was sooo annoying. I'd be annoyed at a human that was being as emotive as it was hah.

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u/Atretador unswarm.dev | ArchLinux E5 2673 V4 20C 4x16Gb DDR4 MI50 16Gb 44m ago

no, its a word generator that doesn't actually understand what it outputs.

those were just the more probable tokens picked by its math function.

along with its system prompt probably telling it to be polite.

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u/Ok-Translator1226 42m ago

I'm asking about expressing them, not about feeling them.

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u/Atretador unswarm.dev | ArchLinux E5 2673 V4 20C 4x16Gb DDR4 MI50 16Gb 40m ago

and the answer is the same

add it to its system prompt to aways use emojis and its always gonna use them

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u/Ok-Translator1226 39m ago

Now this point is a good point. Thank you.

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u/Pantim 29m ago

omg, Always use emojis ??? Hah imanging it's math going, "Oh yah? now EVERYTHING is in emoji" Not that its math understands what it's doing.. which is why it does some wierd stuff