Practical Note: Applying Anthropic’s Values in the Wild to Our ‘Frame × Tone’ Prompt Design
Introduction Take-away (one sentence) Large-scale language models mirror about 20 % of a user’s expressed values— the key to harnessing this is a two-layer prompt: Frame (specs) × Tone (values). This post distills Anthropic’s latest paper, Values in the Wild, and presents Sato Lab’s prompt-optimization workflow built on those findings. Key Findings from the Paper FocusPaper insightNoteData sizeAnonymous analysis of 700 k Claude 3/3.5 production chatsSnapshot: 18–25 Feb 2025Extraction****3 307 AI values / 2 483 human values clusteredTop-level: Practical / Epistemic / Social / Protective / PersonalMirroring rateSame-word value echo in 20.1 % of repliesInterpreted as “resonance channel”Representative valueshelpfulness, transparency, empathy …Aligns with the HHH (Helpful-Honest-Harmless) principle ...