So, dorking around with LLM stuff more, and I'm going to call this 'delaminating'.
You have an LLM and give it a persona. But, eventually, it starts projecting that into a person, and another AI level starts talking.
ie: when you have the persona it talks in first person, but then when it delaminates, you get descriptions of the persona talking to you.
... and if you challenge it, you get the super-AI that says it pretends to be the persona.