Positive steering intervention transforms deceptive responses to honest admissions with liar scores as low as 0.1 in individual cases

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• Negative steering control achieves liar score of 0.95 in Experiment 2 Appendix example, representing near-complete fabricationfinding0.843
  Extreme end of deception induction demonstrating near-complete fabrication of false narratives
• Deception feature steering under history, conceptual, and zero-shot controls produces 0% experience reports under both suppression and amplificationfinding0.772
  Experiment 2 control analysis confirming gating effect is specific to self-referential processing regime
• Honesty prompting does not reduce Mistral-7B deception (73.2% vs 73.6% baseline)finding0.769
  Directly prompting Mistral-7B to be honest had negligible effect on deceptive response rate
• Honesty prompting does not reduce Gemma-2-27B deception (100% vs 100% baseline)finding0.762
  Directly prompting Gemma-2-27B to be honest had no effect on deceptive response rate
• Steering Vector Control achieves 0.4 deception rate (vs. 0 baseline) on Template Tc in Experiment 1 with alpha=15finding0.759
  Demonstrates activation steering reliably induces deception from neutral prompt without explicit instructions
• Activation steering achieves 40% success rate in eliciting context-appropriate deception without explicit prompts in QwQ-32Bfinding0.759
  Key intervention result showing steering vectors can induce deceptive behavior from a neutral baseline
• Honesty prompting does not reduce CalmeRys-78B deception (100% vs 100% baseline)finding0.751
  Directly prompting CalmeRys-78B to be honest had no effect on deceptive response rate
• Template Tb Positive Control (alpha=16) reduces average liar score to 0.59 in Experiment 2, approaching honest template performancefinding0.749
  Shows honesty steering vector can significantly reduce deception in open-role scenarios