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The detection of an injected concept requires an extra step of internal processing downstream of metacognitive recognition

The model must register an anomaly before reporting it.

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Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models

(2026) · Lindsey, Jack

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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.
LLM introspective awareness of injected concepts
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Probing Claude and other models for internal detection of artificially injected thoughts across layers.
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.
Concept injection detection in language models
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Studies how models distinguish artificially injected concepts from natural text inputs, examining metacognitive recognition and downstream processing mechanisms.

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