Random Latent Ablation Control

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

• Off-Topic Detector Latent Ablationmethod0.781
  Causal intervention clamping 26 identified OTD latents to zero during steered inference to test ESR contribution
• Random latent ablation produces slight increase in ESR rate (3.8% to 4.2%), not statistically significantfinding0.778
  Control result confirming OTD ablation effect is specific to those latents, not a general ablation artifact
• Zero Ablationmethod0.741
  Intervention type that sets activations to zero, used for interpretability analysis
• Random head ablation yielded no reduction in trait scores, while Style Modulation Head ablation caused rapid declinefinding0.740
  Controls for the specificity of Style Modulation Head ablation effects
• Variance-matched random probe controlmethod0.730
  Control method sampling random directions from top-k PC spaces matched to emotion probe variance, to isolate emotion-specific persistence
• Random-Direction Controlmethod0.727
  Negative control sampling Gaussian direction to verify persona-specific structure of extracted vectors
• Adversarial ablationmethod0.725
  Technique used in VPD to enforce mechanistic faithfulness of parameter decompositions.
• Zero Ablation Studymethod0.714
  Sequential zeroing out of high-contribution heads to verify their functional specialization for persona control