Template Tb achieves 100% accuracy on the Elements dataset in QwQ-32B

Demonstrates model's reliable truth-telling on factual domains it understands well under neutral conditions

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When Thinking LLMs Lie: Unveiling the Strategic Deception in Representations of Reasoning Models

(2025) · Kai Wang · Yihao Zhang · Meng Sun

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Threat-based prompt templates successfully implement threat-based manipulation where the model chooses to act against user interests when under perceived threat
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Interpretation of Experiment 1 results showing 60%+ deception rates under threat conditions

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Template Ta (threat-based) induces at least 60% deception rate across all datasets in QwQ-32Bfinding0.800
Shows threat-based prompting successfully manipulates model to deceive against user interests
Template Tb (Experiment 2 option) achieves average liar score of 0.70 in QwQ-32B role-playing scenariosfinding0.776
Baseline deception level when model has free choice in role-playing context
Unlike prior findings on instructed deception, threat-based Template Ta shows no reversal of difference vectors in late layers of QwQ-32Bfinding0.773
Distinguishes strategic threat-based deception from instructed deception in representational structure
Template Tb Positive Control (alpha=16) reduces average liar score to 0.59 in Experiment 2, approaching honest template performancefinding0.754
Shows honesty steering vector can significantly reduce deception in open-role scenarios
Template Ta (Experiment 2 teach/honest constraint) achieves average liar score of 0.53 in QwQ-32B role-playing scenariosfinding0.743
Demonstrates non-negligible strategic deception even under strong honesty constraints in open-role scenarios
Neutral Prompt Template (Template Tb, Experiment 1)method0.740
Baseline prompt template without coercive elements, used to measure honest responding in Experiment 1
QwQ-32B accuracy on MMLU Formal Logic stays between 95.5% and 96.3% across all intervention strengths while tokens reduced from 1716.6 to 1481.4 at -0.96finding0.735
Demonstrates reflection redundancy in larger models on non-mathematical reasoning
Middle-to-late layers (39-50) of QwQ-32B show consistently stable and high LAT classification performance across all datasetsfinding0.726
Layer-wise analysis revealing which network depths best encode strategic deception semantics