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Our findings provide a novel, robust mechanistic path for the regulation of complex AI behaviors.

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Mechanistic Knobs in LLMs: Retrieving and Steering High-Order Semantic Features via Sparse Autoencoders

(2026) · Ruikang Zhang · Shuo Wang · Q. Su

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Mechanistic Knobs in LLMs: Retrieving and Steering High-Order Semantic Features via Sparse Autoencoders
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Our method achieves superior performance compared to Contrastive Activation Addition.
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Performance gains over CAA in steering tasks.
Our method enables bidirectional steering of model behavior.
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The method can steer the model in both positive and negative directions on the target semantic.

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Explores aliveness, aesthetics, welfare, and ethical responsibility in AI interaction design.
AI self-understanding through introspection and self-report
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Using AI systems' self-reports and introspective responses as empirical windows into their internal states, validated through mechanistic interpretability analysis across models.

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how can internal features be linked to reliable control of complex, behavior-level semantic attributes?
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Central challenge that the paper addresses.

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