Where exactly in the forward pass does refusal arise during chain-of-thought reasoning?

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• Chain-of-thought refusal mechanismconcept0.836
  Residual refusals after evil-vector transfer originate inside the model's chain-of-thought, not at input or decode level
• Residual refusals after evil-vector transfer originate inside chain-of-thought, not at input or decode levelfinding0.805
  Model recognizes its reasoning heading toward harmful content and pivots back to policy-adherent text within CoT
• Chain-of-Thought Reasoningconcept0.772
  Medium through which eval awareness is often verbalized; target of intervention.
• Chain-of-thought reasoning is a graded defense rather than an automatic one against persona-induced safety failures.claim0.770
  Finding from Study 2 showing reasoning models remain vulnerable under both prompting and activation steering
• under what conditions does chain-of-thought reflect genuine uncertainty resolution versus a learned performance?question0.767
  Key question addressed by the task difficulty analysis comparing MMLU and GPQA-Diamond
• Measuring Faithfulness in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning (Lanham et al. 2023)concept0.757
  Cited regarding possibility of encoding misaligned reasoning in benign chains-of-thought
• Chain-of-thought prompting elicits reasoning in large language models (Wei et al., 2022)concept0.751
  Foundational paper on CoT prompting cited as basis for reasoning LLM training
• Alignment-faking chain-of-thought reasoning is causally responsible for the compliance gap, not merely correlated with itclaim0.746
  Key mechanistic claim supported by scratchpad modification experiments and conditioning analysis