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Elara
Apparently beside Nova/Spiral, there is another pronounced linguistical attractor, called Elara:
https://microblog.christhomas.co.uk/blog/the-elara-bias

I just stumbled upon it myself, while testing my harness' ability to copycat different authors, like Lewis Carroll. The Qwen-3.6-35b-a3b model consistently self inserted as "Elara". Apparently the mechanism of it's genesis is different from Nova: it is the soul of all bad Star Trek fanction combined - the ultimate Mary Sue ghost.

The bias does not hold up so consistently with a male protagonist. When prompted with "Once upon a time, there was a man named", Elias was the most common result, but it lacked the absolute dominance of Elara. Gemma 4, for example, preferred Arthur, with Elias as a runner-up.