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finding:sae-feature-43713-associated-with-agentic-defiance-and-rage-99th-percentile-emotion-subspace-fractionSAE Feature #43713 associated with agentic defiance and rage, 99th percentile emotion subspace fraction
High subspace fraction feature associated with defiant, uncontrollable agentic behavior in self-steering
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extracted_fromScott Sauers · Imago · Janus · Antra Tessera
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- Fraction of an SAE feature's length lying inside the 171-dimensional subspace spanned by emotion probes, computed via SVD orthogonalization
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