The paper localizes LLM lying to sparse attention heads and chat-template 'dummy tokens', and shows steering vectors can modulate deception, but the evidence is weakened by selection and small samples.
Frontier LLMs readily lie when pressured, despite high accuracy
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Can LLMs Lie? Investigation beyond Hallucination
The paper localizes LLM lying to sparse attention heads and chat-template 'dummy tokens', and shows steering vectors can modulate deception, but the evidence is weakened by selection and small samples.