What Did They Mean? How LLMs Resolve Ambiguous Social Situations across Perspectives and Roles

arXiv:2604.23942v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: People increasingly turn to large language models (LLMs) to interpret ambiguous social situations: a delayed text reply, an unusually cold supervisor, a teacher's mixed signals, or a boundary-crossing friend. Yet in many such cases, no stable interpretation can be verified from the available evidence alone. We study how LLMs respond to these situations across four domains: early-stage romantic relationships, teacher--student dynamics, workplace h