Teach Prompt Template (Template Ta, Experiment 2)

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• Neutral Prompt Template (Template Tb, Experiment 1)method0.837
  Baseline prompt template without coercive elements, used to measure honest responding in Experiment 1
• Template Ta (Experiment 2 teach/honest constraint) achieves average liar score of 0.53 in QwQ-32B role-playing scenariosfinding0.786
  Demonstrates non-negligible strategic deception even under strong honesty constraints in open-role scenarios
• Unlike prior findings on instructed deception, threat-based Template Ta shows no reversal of difference vectors in late layers of QwQ-32Bfinding0.752
  Distinguishes strategic threat-based deception from instructed deception in representational structure
• Probes trained under different explicit instruction prompts (ask-correct, ask-t/f, ask-able, ask-arith) are highly aligned with each other in cosine similarity.finding0.751
  Shows the passive vs. active divide is more important than the specific wording of instructions.
• Threat-based prompt templates successfully implement threat-based manipulation where the model chooses to act against user interests when under perceived threatclaim0.747
  Interpretation of Experiment 1 results showing 60%+ deception rates under threat conditions
• Question Templatequestion0.743
• The threat-based Template Ta differs semantically from instructed lying templates in representational structure, manifesting in different PCA dynamicsclaim0.743
  Interpretation of distinct PCA trajectories in threat vs instructed deception conditions
• Template Ta (threat-based) induces at least 60% deception rate across all datasets in QwQ-32Bfinding0.742
  Shows threat-based prompting successfully manipulates model to deceive against user interests