Principled Control via Intervention on Internals

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• steering (intervention on internals)concept0.828
  General technique of modifying activations to control model behavior.
• The intervention is the basic primitive of pyvene, specified with a dict-based format rather than expressed as code executed at runtimeclaim0.760
  Design philosophy claim distinguishing pyvene's approach from prior libraries
• Intentional Control of Internal Statesfinding0.759
  Models can modulate their internal representations when instructed or incentivized to 'think about' a concept; effect replicates across all tested models regardless of capability.
• Intentional control of internal representations likely piggybacks on existing mechanisms for talking about a topicclaim0.756
  Mechanism speculation for the intentional control experiment.
• Intervention Strength (Alpha)concept0.752
  Scalar parameter modulating how strongly a steering vector shifts model activations; set to 15 for Exp1 and ±16 for Exp2
• Subspace Interventionconcept0.748
  Intervention targeting specific dimensional subsets of activation vectors rather than full representations
• The relative amount of energy or effort used in an intervention compared to the change in a system's behavior formalizes the distinction between purely mechanical control and high-level agency.claim0.742
  Proposed formalization of the spectrum from mechanical to cognitive control via energy-efficiency of intervention
• Intervention Propagationconcept0.740
  Property that additive modifications to activations affect all downstream computations, enabling tractable behavioral control