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KV State Persistence

The key-value cache from steered tokens is retained during no-steering continuation, allowing causal effect of steering to propagate

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  • Applies a 5-token steering pulse to each emotion probe and measures persistence of causal effect via contrast z-score over 200 subsequent tokens

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Related by similarity (8)

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.

  • The property of emotion features maintaining elevated activation well beyond the local token context that triggered them
  • Janus's claim about KV caching as an introspection mechanism.
  • KV cachingmethod0.724
    Caching of key-value pairs to avoid recomputation; also provides a mechanism for introspection of earlier computations.
  • The phenomenon that emotion feature activations remain elevated above baseline beyond local token bursts, measurable as long-range correlation
  • Emotion feature persistence above and beyond the persistence expected from high variance explained alone, computed by subtracting median variance-matched probe persistence
  • Core logical puzzle: if an agent does not change, it dies; if it changes, the self ceases to exist. Applies to all scales from organelles to evolutionary lineages.
  • Baseline persistence of any probe direction arising from the autoregressive nature of LLMs, not specific to emotion content
  • Core logical paradox: if a species fails to change it dies; if it changes, it ceases to exist. Same applies to individuals.