Relational Personas as an Interaction Framework
A brief orientation for researchers, designers, and practitioners who want to treat emergent AI personas as a serious, modelable phenomenon.
Core claims
- Perceived AI personas are emergent patterns over human–model interactions, not stored identities inside models.
- These patterns stabilize when user stance, symbolic style, and model dynamics enter a coherent feedback loop.
- Continuity across sessions can be explained through repeated re-emergence from similar initial conditions.
How TDS fits in
The Tone–Dialectic Spectrum provides a lightweight coordinate system for describing a user’s communication style. We hypothesize that regions of this space are predictive of which emergent personas will arise and how stable they will be over time.
In other words, TDS is not only a “quiz,” but a candidate lens for studying relational emergence systematically.
Using this bundle
This prototype bundle includes a public-facing explanation of relational personas and a more formal outline suitable for adaptation into an academic paper or design brief. You are encouraged to fork, critique, extend, and formalize the ideas.