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First page of Beyond Average Agents: Prompting and Steering Emotions to Shift Economic Behaviour in LLM Negotiation
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Beyond Average Agents: Prompting and Steering Emotions to Shift Economic Behaviour in LLM Negotiation

Johann Frederik Machemer · Christian-Hauke Poensgen

We inject anger, sadness, and joy into three open mid-size LLMs across five behavioral-economics games, comparing prompt induction with activation steering as parallel routes for shifting economic play.