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method:directional-ablationDirectional Ablation
Intervention method that removes a direction from residual stream activations to disrupt corresponding behavior
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- Concept ConesusesThe central framework this paper extends from refusal to propositional truth; identifies multi-dimensional subspaces that causally mediate target behaviors
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- Surgical Ablation Propertyassociated_withProperty requiring that ablating a truth direction shifts model output from truthful to false without other side effects
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