Off-topic detector is a functional label based on selection methodology; these latents may serve broader coherence-monitoring roles beyond detecting off-topic content

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• Off-Topic Detector Latentsconcept0.842
  26 SAE latents identified as differentially activated during off-topic content and causally linked to ESR
• Off-Topic Detector Latent Ablationmethod0.801
  Causal intervention clamping 26 identified OTD latents to zero during steered inference to test ESR contribution
• 26 candidate off-topic detector latents identified in Llama-3.3-70B via contrastive searchfinding0.744
  Core mechanistic finding identifying specific SAE latents associated with ESR
• Abstract nouns elicit the highest introspective awareness rates; all concept categories show nonzero detectionfinding0.733
  Opus 4.1 is most effective at recognizing injected abstract concepts (e.g., justice, peace) but detects other categories too.
• Perceived coherence of patterns is an objective measure, not idiosyncratic or subjective—people agree on relative coherence regardless of experimental taskfinding0.732
  Finding that relative coherence rankings remain constant across different people and across different cognitive processing tasks (description, memorization, tachistoscopic recognition), establishing coherence as an objective feature of cognitive processing
• We observe features related to a broad range of safety concerns, including deception, sycophancy, bias, and dangerous content.claim0.717
  SAEs uncover safety-relevant representations that might be monitored or controlled.
• Little evidence of steganography in NLAs; meaning-preserving transformations cause only small drops in FVEfinding0.716
  Quantitative evaluation showing NLAs do not heavily rely on covert encoding beyond overt language.
• High-Low Frequency Detectorconcept0.714
  A less intuitive feature family detecting low-frequency patterns on one side of the receptive field and high-frequency on the other; used as example of non-obvious but understandable features