This preprint studies how explicit Big Five instructions change vision-language model responses and their image-captioning and visual-question-answering (VQA) results. The title's term 'multi-personality' needs a precise reading: the experiment does not combine people, identities, agents, or complete personalities. It combines two selected high/low Big Five trait directions in one prompt. Nor does it observe a spontaneous personality. The model is first told to act with high or low Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Neuroticism, or Openness. The study then measures whether BFI-44 and IPIP-NEO-120 self-descriptions move in that direction and how multimodal metrics change. Two published techniques are attempted: P2 maps each trait to natural-language behavioral descriptors, while Big5-Scaler states numerical intensities. The base models are LLaVA-v1.6-7B and Qwen2.5-VL-7B, without exact repository identifiers, revisions, or checkpoints. The authors judge Big5-Scaler unsuccessful on Qwen and P2 unsuccessful on LLaVA, so the central composition and switching analyses use only P2 with Qwen2.5-VL-7B. For composition, an unidentified auxiliary LLM merges two prompts, and nine pairs selected after observing single-trait task effects and prioritizing aligned tendencies are reported. For switching, the model retains one prior turn under one trait direction and then receives the opposite direction inside the same history. Personality evaluation uses BFI and IPIP-NEO means. Captioning uses 500-example DOCCI and COCO-LN subsets with BLEU-4, CAPTURE, Objects F1, and Relations F1. The method also declares METEOR, but reports no METEOR value. VQA covers CCBench, HallusionBench, MathVista, MMBench, MMMU, MMStar, and SEED-Bench. Questionnaire results show strong instruction following. Under P2 with Qwen, high and low directions clearly separate the target-trait mean; for example, BFI Extraversion moves from a 3.38 baseline to 5.00 or 1.13. Non-target dimensions also move. This shows that the prompt alters generated self-report, but does not validate a latent, stable, or human-equivalent personality: both inventories are self-descriptions produced by the same model under an instruction that names and describes the trait subsequently queried. There is no convergence with independent behavior, test-retest reliability, discriminant validity, or prompt invariance. Several means reach 1.000 or 5.000, so floor and ceiling saturation can mechanically compress differences in composed conditions. In captioning, almost every condition exceeds the displayed baseline. High Conscientiousness, for example, raises BLEU-4 from 22.68/29.11 to 32.28/36.31 on DOCCI/COCO and CAPTURE from 55.89/44.12 to 58.39/45.90. Yet output length, verbosity, and format are uncontrolled, no human factuality evaluation is provided, and captions are not released. A detailed-style prompt can elicit longer text with more objects and relations that better matches long references without proving stronger visual reasoning and potentially while adding unsupported detail. In VQA, effects vary sharply by task and direction. HallusionBench qACC falls from 40.6 to 14.1 under high Extraversion, while some low directions improve individual benchmarks, such as MMMU under low Extraversion. The paper interprets expressiveness as causing overcommitment and restraint as reducing uncertain errors, but these are post hoc mechanisms: there is no response-level error taxonomy, length mediation, hallucination annotation, or causal ablation. Format compliance and parser failures are not reported either; changing verbosity, hedging, or answer form can lower exact-match-style scores without demonstrating impaired reasoning. Two-trait composition generally preserves instructed directions at less extreme levels, improves caption metrics over baseline, and degrades portions of VQA. The authors describe balancing, superposition, cancellation, and compensation. These are interesting descriptive patterns, but the design is selective: among forty possible unordered high/low pairs that do not oppose the same trait, only nine are shown, selected after inspecting individual performance and with the stated aim of aligned tendencies and optimal performance. The auxiliary model, version, prompt, parameters, and composite outputs are undisclosed, so each effect conflates target traits with unknown paraphrases and added descriptors. This is neither an exhaustive factorial design nor a confirmatory interaction estimate. In switching, the second instruction usually dominates but means are less extreme than under fresh single-trait induction; captioning remains above baseline and several VQA values fall between the individual extremes. The paper calls this a residual effect of the former personality. However, the experiment retains the prior instruction, user message, and model answer, then appends a contrary instruction. Ordinary textual recency, instruction conflict, and self-continuation can produce attenuation without memory of an internal psychological state. The figure also depicts a second system message after an assistant response without explaining its serialization in each chat template. The method describes a series of multi-turn exchanges, whereas the actual experiment uses one turn before one switch; it does not evaluate repeated switching, longitudinal stability, or naturally evolving personality. Statistical evidence is especially limited. Only single point estimates are shown, without seeds, repetitions, intervals, paired tests, or correction across many traits, models, methods, metrics, and benchmarks. The text calls questionnaire changes 'significant' without a test, sampling unit, p-value, or interval. Complete prompts, BFI/IPIP parsing and reverse scoring, invalid-response handling, generation parameters, software, hardware, dataset versions, and evaluation commands are also absent. Figure 1 contains a verifiable contradiction: a low-Conscientiousness condition uses organized, disciplined, and reliable, the same high-Conscientiousness descriptors shown above, while another low example uses different, directionally coherent wording. The arXiv artifact contains TeX and static figures only; there is no public code, data, prompts, outputs, checkpoints, or project repository, and the paper conditions code release on future acceptance. The faithful conclusion is narrow: in the principal reported configuration, Big Five instructions strongly change what Qwen2.5-VL-7B says about itself and alter captioning and VQA metrics; selected trait pairs and an instruction reversal inside retained history yield intermediate patterns. The study does not establish human personality, multiple personalities, internal persistence, mechanism-level causality, statistical significance, or independent reproducibility.
Research question
How do Big Five self-reports and performance on captioning and VQA of vision-language models change when they receive instructions of a high/low trait, a selected composition of two traits, or an opposite instruction after one conversation turn?