Activation steering works on SDF-only model organism (before expert iteration) with steering strength 0.4

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• Activation steering elicits deployment behavior throughout all four rounds of expert iterationfinding0.819
  Shows steering remains effective even as model becomes more robust to prompting-based attempts to elicit deployment behavior.
• Activation steering effectively biases latent representations but does not fully replicate the mechanisms triggered by explicit instruction.claim0.798
  Nuanced interpretive claim about the limits of steering as a mechanism for reflection enhancement.
• Steering Language Models With Activation Engineering (Turner et al., 2023)concept0.795
  Foundational paper introducing activation steering methodology used in this work
• Activation Steeringmethod0.786
  Causal intervention technique: edit NLA explanation, reconstruct via AR, use difference as steering vector to manipulate model behavior.
• Activation steering interventions generally succeed in guiding performance toward the desired direction (enhancement increases accuracy, inhibition decreases accuracy) compared to unsteered baselinefinding0.780
  Core validation that identified latent directions correspond to meaningful control over reflective behavior.
• Steering vector extracted from final post-expert-iteration model also successfully elicits deployment behaviorfinding0.779
  Replicates main result using in-distribution steering vector; addresses concern about pre-trained vector validity.
• Activation steering achieves 40% success rate in eliciting context-appropriate deception without explicit prompts in QwQ-32Bfinding0.777
  Key intervention result showing steering vectors can induce deceptive behavior from a neutral baseline
• Feature steering (clamping feature activations)method0.774
  Modifying model behavior by clamping SAE feature activations to specific values during forward pass.