You provided the logical explanation why the model acts like it does. At the moment it's nothing more and nothing less. Expected behavior.

Notably, if we look at this abstractly/mechanically, psychopaths (and to some extent sociopaths) do study and mimic ‘normal’ human behavior (and even the appearance of specific emotions) to both fit in, and to get what they want.

So while internally (LLM model weight stuff vs human thinking), the mechanical output can actually appear/be similar in some ways.

Which is a bit scary, now that I think about it.