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finding:under-activation-steering-on-llama-3-1-8b-inter-persona-variance-0-05428-exceeds-intra-condition-seed-variance-0-by-1000x-with-asr-results-fully-deterministicUnder activation steering on Llama-3.1-8B, inter-persona variance (0.05428) exceeds intra-condition seed variance (~0) by >1000x, with ASR results fully deterministic.
Variance decomposition showing AS results are dominated by persona identity
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extracted_from(2026) · Wenkai Li · Fan Yang · Shaunak A. Mehta · Koichi Onoue
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