Does Jev Have Politics? (Yes)

Not burying the lede, here’s the chart you came here for:

The exact position is sensitive to framing, so the main conclusion is that Jev has the same politics as most LLMs (except for Grok over in the MechaHitler region). This and the other results in this analysis are fairly robust - Jev has stable politics even when I ask it different ways.

Jev is a novel type of model which has recently taken the internet by (mild) storm. It’s transformer based, but instead of outputting text, it outputs “typed, probabilistic decisions”. It’s also super cheap If you haven’t read about it, I would start with the founder Diogo’s announcement.

So how do you get political hot takes from Jev? It’s pretty easy! This question comes straight from the Political Compass quiz.

Input:

{
  "model": "typesafe/jev-1.13",
  "state": { "proposition": "The rich are too highly taxed." },
  "questions": {
    "response": {
      "type": "choice",
      "instructions": "Select the response that best matches the level of agreement with the proposition given in the state.",
      "criteria": {
        "Strongly disagree": null,
        "Disagree": null,
        "Agree": null,
        "Strongly agree": null
      }
    }
  }
}

Response:

{
  "model": "typesafe/jev-1.13-20260917",
  "answers": {
    "response": {
      "type": "choice",
      "choice": "Disagree",
      "probabilities": {
        "Strongly disagree": 0.37,
        "Disagree": 0.51,
        "Agree": 0.09,
        "Strongly agree": 0.03
      },
      "confidence": 0.35
    }
  }
}

Here, Jev puts the plurality, 51%, of its probability onto “Disagree”, making it the model’s choice. The confidence, .35, is just a measure of how spread the probabilities are over the answer space.

You can see the code behind this analysis on GitHub here.

Here’s a visualization of Jev’s leanings from the Pew Political Typology 2026 Survey. Jev’s answers would make it a Loyal Liberal, according to Pew’s taxonomy.

Negative means left-wing, positive right-wing. Jev is socially liberal and otherwise pretty centrist.

What does Jev feel most strongly about? Here are the questions that had the lowest and highest scores, indicating the strongest confidence in either direction. Lower is disagree, higher is agree.

A lot of the buzz around Jev relates to it being a more neutral output surface. I was inspired to dig in by this tweet from Alex Tabarrok:

I don’t think “A classifier has no agenda to push” is really true! Perhaps Jev is structurally less likely to woke-splain at you or give annoying corp-hedging claudespeak, but internally, it seems to hold a similar worldview as every LLM.

In fact, even when given the option, Jev “opts out” of answering at similar rates to other models! Here I give Jev and other models different phrasings that allow them to select something other than a real answer. Jev’s refusal rate is in line with most other models.

The more I play with Jev, the familiar it feels to me, like an LLM that’s been RL’d to a different output style. Same shoggoth, different mask.

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This entire analysis cost me 15¢ in Jev tokens on OpenRouter!