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Representation engineering and prompting methods may combine to achieve stronger behavioral expression across other domains

Broader implication of PM hybrid's superior performance; extrapolated from OCEAN results

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Psychological Steering of Large Language Models

(2026) · Leonardo Blas · Robin Jia · Emilio Ferrara

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Psychological Steering of Large Language Models
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PM hybrid outperforms both P2 and MDS in 13 of 14 LLMs with Phi gains over P2 from 5.56% to 21.92% and over MDS from 3.30% to 26.67%
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Key finding showing that combining prompting and injection is the strongest approach

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