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method:role-vector-extractionRole Vector Extraction
Pipeline for extracting mean post-MLP residual stream activations from model responses under persona-specific system prompts to produce role vectors
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- Residual StreamusesProposed pathway flowing through layers at each position; calculates K/V values that feed horizontal information flow.
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- Standardized PCA run on role vectors to find main axes of persona variation
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cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- Core method for extracting persona vectors by contrasting mean activations under persona-eliciting vs. suppressing prompts
- The paper's core automated pipeline that takes a trait name and description as input and outputs a corresponding persona vector via contrastive prompting
- Named procedure for extracting persona vectors from mean residual-stream activation differences between trait-expressing and non-expressing responses
- Method of extracting persona vectors by contrasting activations when model is prompted to exhibit vs suppress a trait
- Method for obtaining concept vectors by subtracting activations from two contrasting prompts.
- Limitation question motivating future work on persona elicitation strategies
- The initial stage of uncertainty metabolization, pulling usable value from sensations.
- Method using activations from the prompt 'Tell me about {word}' minus mean over other random words to obtain concept vectors.