Affective Inertia: Teaching LLM Agents to Remember Who They Are
Opening — Why this matters now LLM agents are getting longer memories, better tools, and more elaborate planning stacks—yet they still suffer from a strangely human flaw: emotional whiplash. An agent that sounds empathetic at turn 5 can become oddly cold at turn 7, then conciliatory again by turn 9. For applications that rely on trust, continuity, or persuasion—mental health tools, tutors, social robots—this instability is not a cosmetic issue. It’s a structural one. ...