Hidden Pathways

Units, directions, or subcircuits inactive under natural inputs that become active under divergent interventions

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

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Pernicious Divergence
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Divergences that activate hidden pathways or cause dormant behavioral changes, undermining mechanistic claims

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.

Geometric Pathwayconcept0.755
Pathway by which activation steering geometrically displaces representations away from refusal direction, independent of semantic meaning
Hidden Statesconcept0.743
Latent variables causing observations in the generative model.
Semantic Pathwayconcept0.710
Pathway by which system prompting and few-shot imbuing operate through semantic conditioning, preserving alignment with the refusal direction
learnable hidden embeddingsconcept0.698
The component used in latent reasoning to perform internal computation.
Path Patchingmethod0.695
Method by Goldowsky-Dill et al. 2023 for localizing model behavior via targeted activation interventions
Hidden Chain-of-Thought Scratchpadmethod0.693
Mechanism allowing model to reason in SCRATCHPAD_REASONING tags not shown to users or used in RLHF
Path Integrationconcept0.686
Neural mechanism for tracking location through accumulation of self-movement vectors; shown to play the role of position encodings in TEM.
Hidden Markov Modelmethod0.676
Core computational method used to infer pain-belief from online observations of happiness