Calibrated to Whom? Persona and Language Effects on Cultural Values in JEV

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arXiv:2609.36399v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Decision-only language models return a probability for every answer option instead of generating text, which makes them attractive as survey respondents and as judges. We audit the cultural values of one such model, TypeSafe's JEV, with the Values Survey Module 2013. We asked it the 24 items as 12 matched Saudi and 12 matched American personas and without a persona, in English and Arabic, under eight ways of formulating the request (288,0