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Current steering applies fixed strength; dynamic uncertainty-aware steering during inference is an open gap

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ReflCtrl: Controlling LLM Reflection via Representation Engineering

(2025) · Ge Yan · Sun, Chung-En · Tsui-Wei · Weng

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Identifies an outstanding problem, Section 10.
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Tested via FrozenLake experiments; predicts superior performance when environment dynamics change.
Inhibition steering produces larger accuracy drops than enhancement steering produces accuracy gains, across all models and datasets testedfinding0.742
Key asymmetry finding: suppressing reflection is easier than inducing it.
Steering vector extracted from final post-expert-iteration model also successfully elicits deployment behaviorfinding0.742
Replicates main result using in-distribution steering vector; addresses concern about pre-trained vector validity.