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Emotion Subspace

The subspace of activation space spanned by the 171 orthogonalized emotion probe vectors, used to measure SAE feature emotional alignment

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

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  • Internal representations encoding emotion concepts in large language models, identified by probing and SAE methods

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    Extension of DAS that learns a second rotation matrix on top of a fixed first one to decompose representations into sub-representations.
  • Intervention targeting specific dimensional subsets of activation vectors rather than full representations
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    The multi-dimensional activation subspace whose directions causally mediate truthful behavior in LLMs
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    Subspaces whose contributions to a layer's output are canceled by opposing weight values, making them non-causally active under natural inputs
  • Burger et al. (2024) framework proposing that truth is linearly decoded along a 2D subspace capturing both polarity-dependent and polarity-invariant directions.
  • Analysis showing that lower-rank (more central) PCs of emotion feature activations are more persistent than higher-rank (noisier) PCs