arXiv:2606.12443v1 Announce Type: cross 
Abstract: Social roles shape expectations, priorities, and judgments, yet it remains unclear how large language models (LLMs) associate occupational identities with broader cultural value patterns. Prior work used nationality-based cultural prompting to study how LLM responses to value-survey questions align with human cultural benchmarks. In this paper, we extend that framework by replacing cultural prompting with occupational prompting to examine how professional-role cues influence value-survey responses in open-weight LLMs. Using a survey-grounded evaluation pipeline based on questions from the Integrated Values Surveys, we project model responses into the two-dimensional Inglehart--Welzel cultural space. We prompt open-weight LLMs to answer questions under occupational identities such as accountant, teacher, engineer, and nurse, and then analyze how these occupation-conditioned responses are positioned on the cultural map. Our results show that when open-weight LLMs are prompted with occupations rather than national identities, their responses remain within a broadly Western-leaning region of the cultural map. However, different occupations introduce shifts within this region, producing distinct occupational skews. This indicates that occupational prompts are not treated as neutral role labels, but instead elicit structured value patterns. These findings extend survey-based evaluation of cultural bias beyond nationality-based prompting and provide a framework for studying how occupational personas shape value expression in LLMs.

دراسة حديثة نُشرت على arXiv تستكشف كيف تؤثر الهويات المهنية على استجابات نماذج اللغة الكبيرة (LLMs) لأسئلة استطلاعات القيم، كاشفة عن تحيزات ثقافية مرتبطة بمهن مختلفة. من خلال استخدام التحفيز المهني، توسع هذه الدراسة النتائج السابقة التي استخدمت التحفيز الثقافي القائم على الجنسية، موضعة استجابات النموذج ضمن الفضاء الثقافي لإنغلهارت-ويزل.

Un estudio reciente publicado en arXiv explora cómo las identidades ocupacionales influyen en las respuestas de los grandes modelos de lenguaje (LLMs) a preguntas de encuestas sobre valores, revelando sesgos culturales asociados con diversas profesiones. Al emplear el prompting ocupacional, la investigación amplía hallazgos previos que utilizaron el prompting cultural basado en la nacionalidad, posicionando las respuestas del modelo dentro del espacio cultural de Inglehart-Welzel.

Une étude récente publiée sur arXiv examine comment les identités professionnelles influencent les réponses des grands modèles de langage (LLMs) aux questions d'enquête sur les valeurs, révélant des biais culturels associés à diverses professions. En utilisant le prompting professionnel, la recherche prolonge les résultats précédents qui utilisaient le prompting culturel basé sur la nationalité, positionnant les réponses des modèles dans l'espace culturel d'Inglehart-Welzel.

A recent study published on arXiv explores how occupational identities influence the responses of large language models (LLMs) to value-survey questions, revealing cultural biases associated with various professions. By employing occupational prompting, the research extends previous findings that utilized nationality-based cultural prompting, positioning model responses within the Inglehart-Welzel cultural space.