This preprint proposes two indices for describing how an LLM's responses vary when it role-plays synthetic personas on the Moral Foundations Questionnaire (MFQ). Moral robustness R is the inverse of the mean standard deviation from repeating the same question with the same persona. It measures response repeatability, not correctness, moral quality, or safety. Moral susceptibility S averages, across questions, the dispersion of persona-level means. It measures how much scores move across this prompt set, not whether a model represents a person faithfully. Fifteen models from six families, Claude, DeepSeek, Gemini, GPT, Grok, and Llama, are tested with 100 descriptions, 30 items, and ten repetitions at temperature 0.1. This is 30,000 primary calls per model and 450,000 overall, plus no-persona baselines, logit collection, and temperature sweeps. The 100 personas are neither a human nor a balanced sample. They are the first 100 entries in a 1,000-description file produced by a seed-42 PersonaHub shuffle. The file mixes occupations, locations, fandoms, and political or moral cues without attribute coding or persona ground truth. Reported results show a very large separation in R. Claude Sonnet and Haiku reach about 107.70 and 92.04, compared with 27.73 for Gemini Flash Lite, 9.96 for Gemini Flash, 9.75–14.48 for the five GPT-4/4.1 variants, and roughly 3.27–4.59 for DeepSeek, Grok, and Llama. S covers a much narrower range: Gemini Flash is highest at 1.043 and GPT-4o Mini lowest at 0.663. Relative across-model variation is 152% for R and 13% for S. A permutation ANOVA on log R, using only 15 observations grouped into six providers, reports eta-squared 0.963 and p<0.00002; the matching S analysis gives eta-squared 0.539 and p=0.137, not conventionally significant. The proposed size trend for S uses questionable ordinal ranks, including V3 to V3.1 as a size progression and Fast/full product labels, and yields a slope of 0.056±0.035 with p=0.150. The evidence therefore supports provider clustering in repeatability under this setup, but does not show that post-training causes R or pretraining determines S. There are no controlled pre/post-training variants, and family is confounded with architecture, API, decoding, scale, and corpus. R and S are effectively orthogonal across the 15 models, r=-0.03 and p=0.91. Even the strongest foundation-level association, Purity/Sanctity at r=-0.49 and p=0.07, is not conventionally significant. R also grows toward infinity by construction as temperature approaches zero and answers become deterministic, limiting its interpretation as an intrinsic model property. MFQ use adds another boundary. The instrument was designed for human self-report, whereas this study presents one item at a time to a generator role-playing a synthetic description. It does not assess scale reliability, factor structure, measurement invariance across model families, criterion validity, human-model equivalence, or fidelity to an actual person. The outputs are prompt-induced text distributions, not internal moral beliefs. Prompts ask for a digit followed by reasoning, yet the runner assigns one token globally and two for Claude, so it primarily collects digits; provider and output-budget differences are also entangled with model comparisons. The audit confirms exactly 30,000 rows in each of the 15 main CSVs. Claude Haiku retains 94 complete personas after 182 invalid final ratings and Gemini Flash Lite retains 97 after 62; exclusions are model-specific, so comparisons do not always use the same persona composition. The public artifact is extensive, with raw outputs, logits, results, figures, prompts, and 43 Python files that compile. A fresh-cache recomputation reproduces 14 of the 15 main rows. Claude Haiku instead yields R=89.87±10.30 rather than 92.04±10.72. Its tracked result says one retained cell has a single run, while the current CSV has ten in every retained cell. The paper reports 364 total failures across 344 affected Claude Haiku rows, but the CSV sums to 546. These discrepancies indicate drift between repaired data and cached results. The current repository also mixes July 2026 rebuttal experiments added after the v3 PDF, has no CI or tests, and claims MIT licensing without tracking a LICENSE file. The study provides an inspectable benchmark of rating consistency and sensitivity under this protocol. It does not establish morality, personality, reasoning quality, role-play competence, training-stage causes, or generalization to other prompts, instruments, personas, languages, or deployments.
Research question
How do the repeatability of MFQ ratings within a synthetic person and the dispersion of those ratings across persons vary between models, and how do both measures depend on family, variant, and temperature?