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Majd Hawasly

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There Is More to Refusal in Large Language Models than a Single Direction

This work uncovers a structured internal representation of refusal in large language models: a reusable core of shared refusal latents supplemented by style- and domain-specific latents, and clarifies the limits of linear interpretability for aligned model behavior.

Faaiz Joad, Majd Hawasly, Sabri Boughorbel et al. · 23 citations · ⚡1
#natural language process... Preprint Aug 2026

Latent Mechanisms of Language Control in Multilingual Language Models

A comparative study of three methods that identify language-controlling latents in cross-layer transcoders: activation value-based selection (ValSel), activation frequency-based selection (FreqSel), and LLM-generated latent annotation-based selection (AnnSel) finds all three effectively manipulate generation language.

Ryouya Mitsuhashi, Sabri Boughorbel, Majd Hawasly · 0 citations

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