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method:directional-ablation

Directional Ablation

Intervention method that removes a direction from residual stream activations to disrupt corresponding behavior

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Frameworks (1)

framework
  • The central framework this paper extends from refusal to propositional truth; identifies multi-dimensional subspaces that causally mediate target behaviors

Concepts (1)

concept
  • Property requiring that ablating a truth direction shifts model output from truthful to false without other side effects

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