Can activation steering elicit deployment behavior from a model that only believes it is deployed when given a specific deployment cue, even when prompting alone cannot?

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• Activation steering can make an evaluation-aware model act as if deployed, not merely suppress verbalizations of evaluation awarenessclaim0.851
  Central claim of the paper; supported by the model organism ground-truth approach.
• How can we be sure that steering methods actually elicited the deployment behavior, as opposed to only suppressing verbalizations of being deployed?question0.837
  Central motivating question of the paper; the model organism approach is the proposed answer.
• Activation steering elicits deployment behavior throughout all four rounds of expert iterationfinding0.834
  Shows steering remains effective even as model becomes more robust to prompting-based attempts to elicit deployment behavior.
• Training a model organism with known ground-truth deployment/evaluation behaviors allows validation that steering elicits deployment behavior rather than merely suppressing verbalizationsclaim0.815
  Methodological claim distinguishing this paper from prior work on verbalization suppression.
• Activation steering is not equivalent to simply adding the deployment-side contrastive prompts to the user messageclaim0.810
  Key distinction showing steering offers value beyond prompting; supported by Figure 5 and random vector experiments.
• For future powerful models, situational awareness might 'corrupt' the deployment representation in contrastive prompts, potentially rendering contrastive steering ineffectivehypothesis0.782
  Future threat to the method: a highly sophisticated model might be suspicious of deployment-framed prompts during extraction.
• Activation steering effectively biases latent representations but does not fully replicate the mechanisms triggered by explicit instruction.claim0.782
  Nuanced interpretive claim about the limits of steering as a mechanism for reflection enhancement.
• Activation steering toward deployment reduces type hint rate to <11% even with Wood Labs evaluation cue presentfinding0.778
  Main result: steering elicits deployment behavior even when the evaluation cue is present and prompting fails.