Emergi-PersonaOS: A Persona Agent Operating System for Situational Adaptation and Controllable Evolution
Haoluan Fu, Keni Chen, Xinyu Jia, Jinpeng Wang, Yuyu Yin
cs.AI
Quick verdict
A psychology-grounded persona-agent OS, shown on one TV character; evaluation is rigorous but LLM-only, and gains over a static persona are marginal.
Summary
The paper introduces Emergi-PersonaOS, an agent architecture that manages a persistent persona object through construction, situational adaptation, and long-term evolution. Grounded in McAdams and Pals's three-layer framework (Big Five traits, characteristic adaptations, narrative identity), it separates versioned, enduring persona beliefs from turn-level persona states; six modules (construction, execution engine, monitoring, memory, reflection, evolution) share this object. Evolution commits belief revisions only after evidence review, change attribution, meaning-making, and frozen-copy behavioral tests, with rejected candidates retained for reassessment. The system was demonstrated on all 141 episodes of Young Sheldon: Season 1 built initial beliefs; Seasons 2–7 ran longitudinally with six season-end reviews, using deepseek-v4-pro-0813 throughout. Structural compliance averaged 1.97/2 (ICC=0.81). Behavioral ratings gave the full system 4.48/5 versus 2.77 for dialogue-only and 3.76 for L1-only, but only 4.45 for a static-persona baseline (+0.03). Cross-episode memory scored 0.88 versus 0.28 without memory. Six revisions occurred, all in the characteristic-adaptations layer, with target-situation gains up to +0.53 (Season 3), pooled +0.23. Limitations: evaluation is entirely LLM-based with the same model generating and judging, no human evaluation, a single fictional character, and no significance tests for the small condition differences.
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Key claims under review
- A three-layer persona representation separating versioned enduring beliefs from turn-level states lets construction, situational expression, and long-term updating operate on one shared persona object.
- Situational evidence collection plus three-layer state inference yields higher-rated character responses than dialogue-only (4.48 vs 2.77) and L1-only (3.76) conditions, though only +0.03 over a static persona.
- Event-evidence review combining change attribution, meaning-making, and frozen-copy behavioral testing produces controllable belief revisions with reviewable decisions, traceable versions, and rejectable candidates.
- The full pipeline operated over all 141 Young Sheldon episodes with mean structural compliance 1.97/2 and zero registered critical errors across six seasons.
Strengths
Explicit theory-to-architecture mapping
Tables 3.1 and 3.2 tie every module to a named theory (McAdams & Pals three layers, Whole Trait Theory for the belief/state split, TESSERA for the evolution cycle, Kelley/Weiner for attribution, Bühler et al. 2024 for evidence thresholds) — rare disciplinary rigor in agent papers.
Transparent reporting of unfavorable results
§5.2.1 states plainly that persona updates and memory added only +0.03 over the static-persona (4.45) and no-memory (4.41) baselines versus 4.48 full (Table 5.1), redirecting evidential value to §5.2.2 and §5.3 rather than obscuring it.
Rigorous, pre-specified evaluation protocol
Concrete, inspectable controllable-evolution mechanism
Operational transparency at scale
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Frequently asked questions
What is Emergi-PersonaOS?
It is a proposed architecture ('operating system') for LLM persona agents that maintains a persistent persona object: versioned long-term 'beliefs' organized in three psychological layers (Big Five traits, characteristic adaptations, narrative identity) plus turn-level 'states'. It supports character construction, situation-adaptive expression, and evidence-gated long-term personality updates with version history and rejectable revision candidates.
What data was it evaluated on?
Dialogue and plot material from all 141 episodes (seven seasons) of the TV series Young Sheldon. Season 1 built the initial persona; Seasons 2–7 were processed in broadcast order with a review at each season end. All generation, reference production, and judging used the deepseek-v4-pro-0813 model.
Did it actually improve character consistency?
LLM-judge ratings gave the full system 4.48/5 versus 2.77 for generating from dialogue alone, but a static persona baseline built from Season 1 scored nearly the same (4.45 — a +0.03 difference). The clearest gains were in cross-episode memory (0.88 vs 0.28 without memory) and in targeted behavioral tests of its six committed persona revisions.
Is the code or data available?
The paper describes a replication package (prompts, evaluation nodes, rating criteria, run manifests, statistics scripts) but states no public code repository; continuous TV scripts are excluded for copyright reasons, and the pipeline depends on a specific commercial model version, so an independent re-run is currently impractical.
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