Same Prompt, Not the Same Instrument: A Preregistered Test of Persona Framing and Moral Concern in Four Large Language Models
Cross-model comparisons of moral judgement assume a shared prompt is a shared instrument. We report a preregistered test of Motivated Violation Construction (MVC), on which a loaded actor identity can move ambiguous behaviour into violation, in Claude Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and DeepSeek-V4-Flash, which clas...