There is a positive association between Head Contribution Score and the resulting persona gain, suggesting higher-scoring heads tend to induce stronger steering effects

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• Head Cor steering achieved the highest Pareto score in 11 out of 12 experimental conditions (6 personas × 2 steering methods) for Qwen2.5-7B with τ=80finding0.776
  Quantitative summary of Head Cor superiority on the Right-normalized Constrained Envelope Area metric
• Persona alignment improves when the model is exposed to contextual cues explicitly relevant to the assigned persona, as in structured questionnaire tasksclaim0.771
  Supported by GPT-4o achieving highest ACCatom in Questionnaire vs Essay and SMP tasks
• Preventative steering on a fact-acquisition task reduces hallucinations to baseline levels while only slightly reducing new-fact accuracyfinding0.769
  Demonstrates practical utility of preventative steering in a realistic deployment scenario
• Persona vector steering is sharply layer-specific, peaking in a narrow band of central layers and having essentially no effect in late layersfinding0.764
  Evidence consistent with persona vectors acting as early switches determining inferential paths
• Is the stronger persistence signal from agentic self-evaluation due to introspection per se, or due to the ability to test additional steering strengths including negative strengths?question0.763
  Mechanistic ambiguity in interpreting why self-steering evaluation outperforms textual evaluation
• Positive steering intervention transforms deceptive responses to honest admissions with liar scores as low as 0.1 in individual casesfinding0.760
  Most extreme individual case of honesty induction via steering vectors in Experiment 2
• We hypothesize that measuring deviations along the Assistant Axis can predict 'persona drift' leading to harmful or bizarre behaviorshypothesis0.760
  Core predictive hypothesis linking activation representations to behavioral outcomes
• We hypothesize that anti-correlated heads may play a functional role in maintaining coherency by counteracting excessive stylistic shiftshypothesis0.760
  Motivates including Head Cor+Anti condition in steering position comparison