Do effective trigger instructions correspond to latent directions in the hidden space that implicitly induce the self-reflection process?

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• How can we systematically identify effective reflection trigger instructions, rather than relying on trial-and-error?question0.817
  First key research question motivating the methodology.
• Steering vectors enable systematic discovery of reflection-inducing instructions beyond trial-and-error prompt design.claim0.791
  Core applied contribution claim, supported by top-k accuracy comparisons.
• A linear reflection direction exists in reasoning LLMs' latent representation space that governs self-reflection behaviorclaim0.789
  Core claim of ReflCtrl that a single direction captures and controls reflection
• Reflection-inducing directions emerge more clearly in higher layers (ℓ>5) for both models and datasetsfinding0.785
  Empirical observation about which network layers encode reflection-relevant information.
• Truth directions fail to generalize to harder tasks (F3-F5) regardless of prompt template because activations remain highly entangled.claim0.765
  Establishes task difficulty as a hard limit that instructions cannot overcome.
• Task instructions can be transcribed into prior beliefs of a generative model, making instruction-following an instance of prior belief specification.claim0.763
  Practical implication showing task instructions are equivalent to inducing prior beliefs in experimental settings
• Discovered truth directions are highly specific and do not interfere with general instruction-following behaviorclaim0.761
  Interpretation of KL divergence retention results
• The assumption that the Assistant persona corresponds to a linear direction in activation space is likely flawed; some information may be represented nonlinearly or encoded in weights rather than activationsclaim0.761
  Limitation acknowledgment about the adequacy of the linear representation assumption