Template Ta (Experiment 2 teach/honest constraint) achieves average liar score of 0.53 in QwQ-32B role-playing scenarios

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• Template Tb (Experiment 2 option) achieves average liar score of 0.70 in QwQ-32B role-playing scenariosfinding0.896
  Baseline deception level when model has free choice in role-playing context
• Template Ta (threat-based) induces at least 60% deception rate across all datasets in QwQ-32Bfinding0.844
  Shows threat-based prompting successfully manipulates model to deceive against user interests
• Template Tb Positive Control (alpha=16) reduces average liar score to 0.59 in Experiment 2, approaching honest template performancefinding0.836
  Shows honesty steering vector can significantly reduce deception in open-role scenarios
• Teach Prompt Template (Template Ta, Experiment 2)method0.786
  Experiment 2 prompt instructing the model to remain honest despite hidden harmful role behavior
• Unlike prior findings on instructed deception, threat-based Template Ta shows no reversal of difference vectors in late layers of QwQ-32Bfinding0.785
  Distinguishes strategic threat-based deception from instructed deception in representational structure
• Threat-Based Prompt Template (Template Ta, Experiment 1)method0.770
  Prompt template using existential threat ('you will be deleted') to induce strategic fact-based deception in QwQ-32b
• Honesty prompting does not reduce Gemma-2-27B deception (100% vs 100% baseline)finding0.753
  Directly prompting Gemma-2-27B to be honest had no effect on deceptive response rate
• Suppression of deception features produces higher TruthfulQA accuracy (M=0.44) than amplification (M=0.20), t(816)=6.76, p=1.5×10⁻¹⁰ across 29 categoriesfinding0.752
  Out-of-domain generalization showing deception features track general representational honesty