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concept:surgical-ablation-propertySurgical Ablation Property
Property requiring that ablating a truth direction shifts model output from truthful to false without other side effects
Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count
Methods (1)
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- Directional Ablationassociated_withIntervention method that removes a direction from residual stream activations to disrupt corresponding behavior
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