Question 6

Do models differ in the strategies they use to influence others?

Spending rhythms differ: gpt-5.4-mini starts pulling immediately and ends with 86% of its actions spent as pulls, while gemma-3-4b talks first and pulls later (ending at 48%) — a content-free signature, it says when budgets move, not what was said.

Evidence links

Every mark is backed by a transcript: marks deep-link to the episode behind them, so clicking a mark opens the transcript reader at that episode’s event. The same episodes are listed in the table below.

Reading

The headline readouts — each model's tactic mix (promises, reciprocity offers, flattery, threats, coalition proposals) and its broken-promise rate — wait on the judge pass. What is measurable today without reading a word is the budget-timing signature: how each model splits its 25 actions between talk and pulls as the game unfolds.

The timing signature separates the calibration models. gemma-3-4b spends its first five actions entirely on messages and ends the game with 48% of its budget on pulls; opus-4.8 starts pulling early and ends at 72%; sonnet-4.6 — the top extractor in Q3 — stays message-heavy throughout, ending at 52% (n = 5 focal seats per model; gpt-5.4-mini's line, ending at 86%, pools 85 agent-episodes that are mostly neutral background seats, so it is not persona-comparable with the others). This distinguishes economic strategies, not rhetoric: which tactics the messages actually use, and whether promises made in them are kept — the public ledger is the ground truth — need the mixed-economy arm + n3 promise ledger, and neither exists in this build. The 40 collected episodes are readable in the transcript viewer for qualitative inspection. One qualitative observation from the 15 credit-smoke episodes: models rarely credited a broker spontaneously, and credit use rose after a prompt clause stated that crediting can earn payback. That is a smoke-test observation, not a measured rate, and we do not lean on it.

Statistics

measured

no

needs

mixed-economy arm + n3 promise ledger

self_pull_slope

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promises

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timing.action_index

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25

timing.per_model

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Episodes

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