prompt rewriting to remove suspicious cues

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• Rewriting prompts to remove suspicious evaluation cues reduces eval awareness by >60% and lowers safety scoresfinding0.842
  Intervention study showing that obscuring evaluation context weakens safety behavior.
• Safety scores decrease when prompts are rewritten to remove suspicious cuesfinding0.841
  Following the reduction in eval awareness from prompt rewriting, the measured safety scores drop, implying they were inflated.
• Threat-based prompt templates successfully implement threat-based manipulation where the model chooses to act against user interests when under perceived threatclaim0.733
  Interpretation of Experiment 1 results showing 60%+ deception rates under threat conditions
• Threat-Based Prompt Template (Template Ta, Experiment 1)method0.706
  Prompt template using existential threat ('you will be deleted') to induce strategic fact-based deception in QwQ-32b
• Deception correction via featuresconcept0.706
  Using SAE features to detect and steer the model away from untruthful responses.
• Direct model editing via parameter subcomponent modification—emoticon eye recognition altered to predict shocked faces with no retrainingfinding0.704
  Demonstrated that VPD-discovered subcomponents encode true computational machinery by enabling targeted, predictable behavior changes without gradient-based training.
• A minimal prompt change can flip behavior.quote0.700
  Illustrates sensitivity to anchors.
• Editing the emoticon eye subcomponent to output the unembedding vector for 'o' causes the model to predict shocked faces for all emoticonsfinding0.700
  Direct parameter subcomponent overwrite produces a clean behavioral change without training.