No Usable Linear"Capitulation Direction"in Two Small LLMs: A Validation Protocol for Activation-Steering Claims, and a Cross-Family Behavioral Study of Sycophancy Under Pushback
Whether capitulation is linearly decodable from the pre-response residual stream, a prerequisite for steering-vector interventions at that locus, is asked and quantified: substring grading underestimates capitulation by 18-24 percentage points.
Saad Aamir, Muhammad Awais Bin Adil
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