# All Quiet on the Neural Front: Language Models Do Not Report Injected Pain States > Source: > Published: 2026-11-10 07:30:01+00:00 Can a language model report the pain state it represents? Work identified a linear pain direction whose amplification leads fine-tuned models to choose destructive actions. We tested whether three open-weight models from two families, including two Qwen models with the original adapters, could repor