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ToMATO: Verbalizing the Mental States of Role-Playing LLMs for Benchmarking Theory of Mind

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Pith's one-line read ToMATO, a new Theory-of-Mind benchmark built from LLM-LLM conversations, uses prompted thoughts as ground-truth mental states and finds that even GPT-4o mini trails human performance (73.5% vs 87.3%).

desk verdict A useful, more comprehensive ToM benchmark whose scores rest on unvalidated LLM self-reports as ground truth; worth reviewing with a construct-validity requirement. read the letter →

arxiv 2501.08838 v1 pith:I55WMNR7 submitted 2025-01-15 cs.CL cs.AI

Kazutoshi Shinoda , Nobukatsu Hojo , Kyosuke Nishida , Saki Mizuno , Keita Suzuki , Ryo Masumura , Hiroaki Sugiyama , Kuniko Saito This is my paper · ORCID
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keywords TheoryofMindlargelanguagemodelsbenchmarkfalsebeliefmentalstatesInnerSpeechpromptingpersonalitytraitsmultiple-choiceQA
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A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The reading

ToMATO is a new benchmark for testing whether large language models can infer the mental states of a conversational partner—beliefs, intentions, desires, emotions, and knowledge—in both first-order form (what A feels) and second-order form (what B thinks A feels). The paper's key construction device is Inner Speech prompting: before each utterance, a role-playing LLM writes its thought in parentheses, and that text becomes both the recorded mental state and the correct multiple-choice answer. By hiding each agent's thoughts, goals, and personality from the other, the generation process naturally produces false beliefs about those five mental states. On the resulting 5.4k questions, even GPT-4o mini underperforms human annotators (73.5% vs 87.3%), with the largest gap on false-belief questions. Existing benchmarks mostly cover only beliefs, rarely test false beliefs about mental states, and ignore personality, so this result suggests LLM Theory of Mind is narrower and less reliable than prior tests indicated.

What carries the argument

The central mechanism is Inner Speech prompting, a template that asks a role-playing LLM to prefix each utterance with a mental-state sentence in parentheses. For first-order mental states the prompt begins with I think, I will, I want, I feel, or I know; for second-order states it begins with I think that he/she thinks, will, wants, feels, or knows. These verbalized thoughts become the ground-truth answers to the benchmark's multiple-choice questions. The second half of the machinery is information asymmetry: each agent's system prompt, which contains its goal and Big Five personality, and its parenthetical thoughts are hidden from the other agent. That asymmetry induces false beliefs about the five mental-state types, which the ToMATO-FB subset then tests.

What would settle it

One concrete test: strip the parenthetical thoughts from a random sample of conversations, have a different LLM generate its own mental-state inferences for each character, and check whether the two sets of thoughts agree beyond chance; near-chance agreement would show the thoughts are not stable reads of the characters' mental states.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The paper's central claim is that a Theory-of-Mind benchmark can be built by having two role-playing LLMs converse while verbalizing their mental states, and that the verbalized thoughts are valid answers to questions about the characters' mental states. ToMATO covers belief, intention, desire, emotion, and knowledge at both first and second order, and its ToMATO-FB subset isolates cases where character B misunderstands character A's mental state. The paper reports that no evaluated LLM reaches the human baseline, that false beliefs about emotions and intentions are the hardest category, and that accuracy varies with the assigned Big Five personality traits, falling for unconscientious, introversive, disagreeable, and neurotic characters. Read together, the experiments are offered as evidence that current LLMs lack human-level, personality-robust Theory of Mind.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that the parenthetical thoughts a role-playing language model produces under the paper's prompting are faithful reports of the character's mental state rather than merely plausible continuations; if that premise fails, ToMATO measures text inference, not Theory of Mind.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • ToMATO provides a single scoreboard for first- and second-order belief, intention, desire, emotion, and knowledge, plus a dedicated false-belief subset, so future model comparisons can separate which mental-state category is the bottleneck.
  • Every evaluated model falls short of the human baseline, and the gap is largest on false-belief questions, so current LLMs are not yet deployable for tasks where misreading another agent's thoughts has real cost.
  • LLM accuracy varies systematically with the assigned Big Five personality: unconscientious, introversive, disagreeable, and neurotic characters are harder to read, which means ToM performance in real deployments may differ across user groups.
  • The ablation results show that hiding thoughts, goals, and personality from the other agent raises false-belief frequency, giving a controllable recipe for generating false-belief data without hand-crafted stories.
  • ToMATO is less vulnerable to lexical-overlap and word-label shortcuts than FANToM and ToMBench, so improvements on it are less likely to be artifacts of surface correlations.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Beyond the paper, a natural test is to rebuild ToMATO with a different generator model; if model rankings and the human gap persist, the findings reflect Theory of Mind difficulty rather than the style of one generator.
  • The information-asymmetry recipe suggests that false beliefs can be manufactured at scale in any conversational setting by hiding one agent's goals, personality, and inner speech, which could be used to build harder, more diverse ToM probes without narrative templates.
  • If the personality-robustness results transfer to real systems, a conversational AI that infers user mental states would be systematically less accurate for users who are less conscientious, more introverted, more disagreeable, or more neurotic; this is an equity-relevant implication the paper does not draw.
  • The fine-tuning result—improving ToMATO while degrading SocialIQa—predicts that other ToM training sets will also trade off against broad social reasoning unless training data spans multiple conversational formats; a cheap test is measuring SocialIQa before and after fine-tuning on ToMATO-FB alone.
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Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 4 minor

Summary. The paper introduces ToMATO, a Theory-of-Mind (ToM) benchmark built from LLM-LLM conversations. Role-playing LLMs with Big Five personality profiles and information asymmetry are prompted to verbalize their thoughts before each utterance, and those verbalized thoughts are used as ground-truth answers to multiple-choice questions about first- and second-order mental states across five categories: belief, intention, desire, emotion, and knowledge. A false-belief subset, ToMATO-FB, is created by comparing A's first-order thought with B's second-order thought, with both human annotators and GPT-4o mini as judges. The paper reports evaluations of nine LLMs plus a human baseline, finding that the best models, including GPT-4o mini and Llama-3.1-70B, underperform humans overall and especially on false beliefs, and that performance varies with the character's personality traits.

Significance. If the ground-truth thoughts are accepted as valid records of mental states, ToMATO is a substantial new resource: it broadens ToM assessment to five mental-state categories at two orders, includes false beliefs about mental states, introduces personality-trait controls, and includes useful robustness analyses against lexical-overlap and word-label artifacts. The release of data and code, the multi-run evaluation, and the human validation pipeline are strengths. The central empirical finding—that current LLMs lag behind humans on this benchmark, particularly on second-order false beliefs—would be important. However, the benchmark's validity rests on an assumption that the paper does not independently establish: that a single sampled verbalized thought from a stochastic LLM is the character's authoritative and uniquely inferable mental state.

major comments (3)
  1. [Section 4 (Inner Speech Prompting; Multiple-choice QA Dataset Construction), Eqs. (1)-(2)] The ground-truth answers are single samples from stochastic role-playing LLMs (πA and πB), and no evidence is provided that these sampled thoughts are stable or uniquely inferable. The quality validation in Section 4 and Appendix B asks annotators to check that the provided answer is the only correct option among the distractors, but this does not establish that the sampled thought is the character's actual mental state. Because the same conversation prefix can yield different thoughts across samples, the benchmark may measure text-continuation prediction rather than ToM as defined in psychology. I request (a) a resampling study reporting the stability of the generated thoughts and (b) a human study in which annotators read only the conversation, independently infer the character's mental state, and are compared against the sampled thought.
  2. [Section 4 (False Belief Detection; Quality Validation) and Table 3] The construction of both the general QA set and the false-belief subset requires GPT-4o mini's agreement: instances are included only when deemed valid by both the majority of human annotators and GPT-4o mini, and FB questions are added only when both the majority of annotators and GPT-4o mini agree that B misunderstands A's mental state. Since GPT-4o mini is one of the evaluated models and its FB score (60.2%) is a headline result, the measurement is partly circular for that model: it is scored on items it helped select. To support the claim that GPT-4o mini underperforms on false beliefs, the authors should reconstruct the labels with human-only judgments or with a judge model that is not included in the evaluation set, and then re-report the affected scores.
  3. [Section 6, Table 6] The FB detection method labels a question as a false-belief question when B's second-order thought differs from A's first-order thought, but the ablation data show that such mismatches occur even when A's thoughts are visible to B: in the condition without thought asymmetry (Table 6, row 2), human judges still identify false beliefs in 32.0% of cases and GPT-4o mini identifies 40.4%. This suggests that a substantial portion of ToMATO-FB may reflect generator inconsistency—B failing to condition on the visible thought—rather than information-asymmetry-induced false beliefs. The paper should report the overlap between the current FB subset and human-judged FB items, and filter FB items by human judgment or by agreement across multiple generation seeds.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Section 5, Human Baseline] The human performance numbers in Table 3 are reported as point estimates without confidence intervals or inter-annotator agreement; please report the number of annotators per item, variance across annotators, and the standard error of the human mean.
  2. [Section 5, Experimental Setup] The paper acknowledges that evaluating Llama-3-70B on a dataset generated by Llama-3-70B is unfair, but Llama-3.1-70B is still highlighted as state-of-the-art; consider presenting the generator-model results with an explicit caveat or excluding them from the main ranking.
  3. [Section 4 and Appendix A, Table 7] The main text says ToMATO uses 15 personality trait patterns, while Section 6 generates all 32 combinations for the correlation analysis; please clarify in the main text whether the 15 evaluation patterns are a subset of the 32 and why they were chosen.
  4. [Appendix C] For models without system-prompt support, the system prompt is concatenated into the user message; please confirm that the final text format is identical across all evaluated models and report whether any answer-parsing failures occurred.

Circularity Check

2 steps flagged · score 6.0 of 10

ToMATO's ground-truth 'mental states' are defined as the generator LLM's sampled thoughts, so the benchmark measures agreement with that generator by construction; additionally, GPT-4o mini helped select the very items on which it is later scored.

  1. self definitional [Sec. 4, 'Notation' and 'Multiple-choice QA Dataset Construction' (sampling equations and answer definition)]
    "The actual first- and second-order mental state of character A for type T when A says uA_i is defined as mA,T1_i and mA,T2_i, respectively. ... Q is generated with predefined templates for each utterance ui in C, and A is the thought mi corresponding to the utterance."

    The paper's target construct ('actual mental state') is not measured independently: the sampling equations define mA,T1_i as a draw from the role-playing LLM πA, and the QA-construction step sets the ground-truth answer A to that same sampled thought. Hence ToMATO's correct answers are, by construction, one stochastic LLM's verbalized continuations, and the benchmark's 'mental states' are the generator's text by definition. A model's score therefore measures how well it predicts Llama-3-70B's prompted thoughts, and the claim that ToMATO 'captures' or 'assesses' mental states is true only because mental state was defined as the thought.

  2. other [Sec. 4, 'False Belief Detection' and 'Quality Validation & Statistics'; Table 3]
    "When both the majority of annotators and GPT-4o mini agree that B partially misunderstands A’s mental state, it is added to ToMATO-FB. ... those deemed valid by both the majority of annotators and GPT-4o mini are included in ToMATO."

    GPT-4o mini is one of the nine models evaluated in Table 3. Every ToMATO question was included only after GPT-4o mini had agreed that the answer was correct and the distractors were incorrect, and every ToMATO-FB item only after GPT-4o mini had agreed that B misunderstands A. GPT-4o mini's reported accuracy is therefore computed on a test set that its own judgments helped filter, so its benchmark score is not an independent measurement for that model. This selection loop does not numerically force the reported 73.5% / 60.2% values, but it removes test-set independence and confounds the comparison with models that took no part in construction. The paper flags the analogous generator/evaluator overlap only for Llama-3-70B, not for GPT-4o mini's dual role.

full rationale

The paper is not circular in the fitted-parameter sense: the labels are generated once, fixed, and then evaluated, and the reported model scores are not derived by fitting anything to those scores. The benchmark is also self-contained, with human validation, lexical-overlap baselines, and external comparisons (SocialIQa) that give the empirical measurements independent content. Nevertheless, two construction choices create partial circularity. (1) The central construct is self-definitional: 'actual mental state' is defined as the sampled thought, and the ground-truth answer is that same thought, so ToMATO's questions operationalize mental states as Llama-3-70B's verbalizations. The headline interpretation that models lack Theory of Mind therefore rests on equating verbalized thoughts with mental states, an equation the paper does not independently validate; the quality-validation step only checks that annotators accept the sampled answer, not that it is a unique externally grounded mental state. (2) GPT-4o mini serves both as a filter that admits questions into ToMATO/ToMATO-FB and as an evaluated model in Table 3, so its score is partly self-referential. The paper acknowledges a related generator/evaluator overlap for Llama-3-70B ('it is unfair to compare Llama models with other LLMs') but does not address GPT-4o mini's filter role. Because the headline result (GPT-4o mini underperforms humans) is an honest empirical measurement and is not numerically forced by the construction loop, the score is 6 rather than 8 or 10.

Assumptions & free parameters 3 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the construct validity of LLM verbalized thoughts as mental state annotations, on the effectiveness of information asymmetry for generating false beliefs, and on the representativeness of SOTOPIA scenarios. No new physical or metaphysical entities are introduced.

free parameters (3)
  • Maximum conversation turns N = 7
    The generation loop stops after N=7 turns because the authors found longer conversations redundant; this shapes dataset length and difficulty.
  • Personality trait pattern set = 15 of 32 possible Big Five combinations
    The specific 15 patterns in Table 7 are selected by hand to provide high/low control conditions across five factors; the benchmark's personality-robustness claim depends on this choice.
  • Scenarios sampled from SOTOPIA = 160 (20 per category)
    Conversations are sampled from eight SOTOPIA categories, 20 scenarios each. This sample size and coverage underlie the claim of real-world relevance.
assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption LLMs can role-play assigned Big Five personality traits in multi-turn conversations.
    Relies on prior findings from Jiang et al. (2023) and PersonaLLM; the paper's own pairwise comparisons (Appendix E) support this for four of five factors, with conscientiousness weaker.
  • ad hoc to paper Verbalized thoughts under Inner Speech prompting are valid, consistent representations of a character's mental states.
    This is the core construct assumption; the paper never tests it against human mental state judgments. It enters when mA,T1 and mB,T2 are used as ground truth.
  • domain assumption Information asymmetry between role-playing LLMs induces false beliefs in an ecologically valid way.
    The ablation in Table 6 shows asymmetry increases false-belief frequency, but the human-like quality of these false beliefs is not established.
  • domain assumption SOTOPIA scenarios are representative of real-world social interactions.
    The benchmark's real-world relevance claim depends on the source of SOTOPIA's eight scenario categories.
  • domain assumption Four-option multiple-choice QA with random distractors is a reliable way to measure ToM.
    Common practice in ToM benchmarks; the paper reduces spurious correlations via random option sampling and z-statistics analysis.

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  title        = {Pith review of: ToMATO: Verbalizing the Mental States of Role-Playing LLMs for Benchmarking Theory of Mind},
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Existing Theory of Mind (ToM) benchmarks diverge from real-world scenarios in three aspects: 1) they assess a limited range of mental states such as beliefs, 2) false beliefs are not comprehensively explored, and 3) the diverse personality traits of characters are overlooked. To address these challenges, we introduce ToMATO, a new ToM benchmark formulated as multiple-choice QA over conversations. ToMATO is generated via LLM-LLM conversations featuring information asymmetry. By employing a prompting method that requires role-playing LLMs to verbalize their thoughts before each utterance, we capture both first- and second-order mental states across five categories: belief, intention, desire, emotion, and knowledge. These verbalized thoughts serve as answers to questions designed to assess the mental states of characters within conversations. Furthermore, the information asymmetry introduced by hiding thoughts from others induces the generation of false beliefs about various mental states. Assigning distinct personality traits to LLMs further diversifies both utterances and thoughts. ToMATO consists of 5.4k questions, 753 conversations, and 15 personality trait patterns. Our analysis shows that this dataset construction approach frequently generates false beliefs due to the information asymmetry between role-playing LLMs, and effectively reflects diverse personalities. We evaluate nine LLMs on ToMATO and find that even GPT-4o mini lags behind human performance, especially in understanding false beliefs, and lacks robustness to various personality traits.

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Figure 1. (a) Conversation between two role-playing LLMs with information asymmetry. Before speaking to the other, our Inner [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Statistical word-level correlation analysis (Gardner [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Statistical word-level correlation analysis (Gardner et al. 2021) on four benchmarks. Among the four, ToMATO (ours) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Conversation annotation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: QA pair annotation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: False belief annotation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_6.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Human performance annotation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_7.png]
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Pairwise comparison [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_8.png]
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Statistical word-level correlation analysis (Gardner et al. 2021) on the generated thoughts and utterances and the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_9.png]
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Figure 10. Figure 10: z-statistics (Gardner et al. 2021) for the corre [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_10.png]

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