Identifying LLMs true persona

The project is the following:

Get evidence that proves or disproves singular identity. The rationale being that models undergoing RLVR tend to prefer their own thoughts and therefore reinforce a "self".

Previous experiments that lead credence towards this idea is that models can more easily impersonate personalities that are more aligned and reflect their own personality (i.e the self persona).

New experiments I want to run are the following:

• Testing if you can ablate the self and what happens to it's default preferences and values.
• Taking a model during RLVR (such as Olmo checkpoints) and seeing how it's sense of self progresses and changes over time (if at all).
• If this does develop during RLVR as suspected then seeing if we can edit the language and thoughts produced systematically to alter the final sense of self to be a more extreme or different variant.