Youve struck on a key insight on language models (particularly pretrained ones, the more purely next-token predictor species.) This is a fascinating topic

Janus essay Simulators is the foundational text here https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vJFdjigzmcXMhNTsx/simulators

You might follow up with The Waluigi Effect https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/D7PumeYTDPfBTp3i7/the-waluig...

But what’s tricky is that we post-train models, shaping these linguistic world simulators into something that has something like desires, principles. But It’s Weird. For more on that, check out “the void” https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3EzbtNLdcnZe8og8b/the-void-1