Cyclic concepts (months, days)

Natural language cyclic reasoning tasks (e.g., 'What month is six months after August?') that share the same addition circuit.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

paper

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Manifold Steering
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Central framework: steering neural networks by intervening along the curved manifold where a concept lives, rather than in straight lines through activation space.

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Months of the year as cyclic conceptconcept0.901
Running example used throughout the paper; months cycle with period 12
Cyclic Concept Geometryconcept0.824
The circular geometric structure that cyclically ordered concepts (days, months) exhibit in both representation and behavior space.
Days-of-Week Cyclic Structurefinding0.807
Key empirical result: days-of-week appear as identical circular manifold in both Llama-3.1-8B internal activations and output token probability distributions.
Schedule Conceptconcept0.800
Mechanical timer concept used throughout paper to illustrate operational principle and formal modeling of concepts
Frequent Conceptconcept0.793
Cyclic Geometryconcept0.782
One of the geometric structures used to characterize reasoning task representations in language models, used as a test case for manifold steering
Concept-specific periodconcept0.778
The natural cycle length of a cyclic concept (e.g., 12 for months, 7 for days of the week)
Cyclic concept reasoning probingmethod0.775
Experimental paradigm using prompts like 'what month is six months after August?' to study model arithmetic