I think the concept you're talking about has been described as LLM attractor states. Here's a LW post about it for Deepseek v3 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/r

I think the concept you're talking about has been described as LLM attractor states. Here's a LW post about it for Deepseek v3 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rvbjZMp6aEDn2jiyp/mapping-llm-attractor-states https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rvbjZMp6aEDn2jiyp/mapping-ll...