Performative chain-of-thought is real; verbalized output does not equal internal state.

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Mechanistic interpretability & model evaluation
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Spans attention head decomposition, benchmark awareness, and genomic pathogenicity prediction via neural models.
Internal model certainty and reasoning transparency
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Probing early detection of model confidence during chain-of-thought reasoning to optimize inference efficiency and identify confabulation patterns.
Chain-of-thought reasoning versus internal model cognition
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Examines whether verbalized reasoning chains reflect actual internal computation or post-hoc rationalization, using behavioral analysis and representation studies.
Performative vs. generative chain-of-thought
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Verbalized reasoning may post-hoc rationalize internally pre-committed answers rather than drive them.

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does chain-of-thought text faithfully reveal a model's internal reasoning process, or does it constitute performative theater?question0.859
Central research question motivating the paper
Performative chain-of-thoughtconcept0.815
Central concept: verbalized reasoning that occurs after the model has already internally settled on an answer, particularly on easier tasks.
Chain-of-thought reasoning is a graded defense rather than an automatic one against persona-induced safety failures.claim0.790
Finding from Study 2 showing reasoning models remain vulnerable under both prompting and activation steering
Abstract performatives include purely internal actions such as commitments not necessarily expressed in output, but on whose fulfillment the correctness of the program depends.quote0.788
Definition of abstract performative, a core invention of the paper.
under what conditions does chain-of-thought reflect genuine uncertainty resolution versus a learned performance?question0.784
Key question addressed by the task difficulty analysis comparing MMLU and GPQA-Diamond
Self-referential processing induces a genuine state shift that transfers to unrelated behavioral domains, producing richer introspection in paradoxical reasoning tasksclaim0.772
Claim supported by Experiment 4: prior self-referential induction yields higher self-awareness scores on paradoxical reasoning where introspection is only indirectly afforded
A small number of high-quality human demonstrations of chain-of-thought reasoning could be used to improve and focus performance.hypothesis0.768
Section 6 mentions high-quality human demos could improve natural language feedback.
Inner monologue / chain-of-thought in LLMsconcept0.766
The hidden reasoning steps generated by recent LLMs before visible output; mentioned in the technology section.