Off-Topic Detector Latent Ablation

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• Off-topic detector is a functional label based on selection methodology; these latents may serve broader coherence-monitoring roles beyond detecting off-topic contentclaim0.801
  Epistemic caution about over-interpreting the OTD label given the heterogeneity of identified latents
• Random Latent Ablation Controlmethod0.781
  Control experiment ablating random latents matched for activation frequency and magnitude to test OTD specificity
• Zero Ablationmethod0.760
  Intervention type that sets activations to zero, used for interpretability analysis
• Off-target Noise Amplificationconcept0.750
  Information irrelevant to the target persona that gets amplified when steering via the residual stream
• 26 candidate off-topic detector latents identified in Llama-3.3-70B via contrastive searchfinding0.746
  Core mechanistic finding identifying specific SAE latents associated with ESR
• Zero Ablation Studymethod0.732
  Sequential zeroing out of high-contribution heads to verify their functional specialization for persona control
• Contrastive Learning Ablation Studymethod0.729
  Three-setting ablation (Before Training, Without CL, With CL) to isolate the contribution of contrastive learning
• Feature ablation (zeroing feature activations)method0.722
  Clamping a feature's value to zero to measure its causal effect on model output.