Mean-difference residual stream injections outperform personality prompting for OCEAN trait steering in most LLMs, with hybrids performing best and showing approximate linearity but non-human trait covariances.
Axbench: Steering LLMs? even simple base- lines outperform sparse autoencoders
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SKOP uses key-orthogonal projections to steer LLM activations while preserving attention patterns on focus tokens, cutting utility degradation by 5-7x and retaining over 95% of standard steering efficacy.
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Psychological Steering of Large Language Models
Mean-difference residual stream injections outperform personality prompting for OCEAN trait steering in most LLMs, with hybrids performing best and showing approximate linearity but non-human trait covariances.
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Don't Lose Focus: Activation Steering via Key-Orthogonal Projections
SKOP uses key-orthogonal projections to steer LLM activations while preserving attention patterns on focus tokens, cutting utility degradation by 5-7x and retaining over 95% of standard steering efficacy.