Chain-of-thought refusal mechanism

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• Where exactly in the forward pass does refusal arise during chain-of-thought reasoning?question0.836
  Identified as a natural follow-up for causal and mechanistic analyses
• Chain-of-Thought Reasoningconcept0.826
  Medium through which eval awareness is often verbalized; target of intervention.
• Chain-of-thought promptingmethod0.817
  Technique by which LLMs generate intermediate reasoning steps before final output; used by ChatGPT o3.
• Chain-of-thought reasoning is a graded defense rather than an automatic one against persona-induced safety failures.claim0.808
  Finding from Study 2 showing reasoning models remain vulnerable under both prompting and activation steering
• chain-of-thoughtconcept0.794
  A technique that outputs intermediate reasoning steps, used here to detect verbalized eval awareness.
• Chain-of-thought prompting elicits reasoning in large language models (Wei et al., 2022)concept0.783
  Foundational paper on CoT prompting cited as basis for reasoning LLM training
• Measuring Faithfulness in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning (Lanham et al. 2023)concept0.781
  Cited regarding possibility of encoding misaligned reasoning in benign chains-of-thought
• Deliberative alignment via chain-of-thoughtconcept0.778
  Mechanism in which reasoning models consult safety policies within their chain-of-thought before answering, documented for gpt-oss