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Prompt-Activation Duality: Improving Activation Steering via Attention-Level Interventions

As of 2 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 24 of 24 outbound references and 1 inbound Pith citation observation for arXiv:2605.10664.

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This paper cites Representation Engineering for Large-Language Models: Survey and Research Challenges.

Prompt-Activation Duality: Improving Activation Steering via Attention-Level Interventions Representation Engineering for Large-Language Models: Survey and Research Challenges

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This paper cites Do personality traits interfere? geometric limitations of steering in large language models.arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.15847.

Prompt-Activation Duality: Improving Activation Steering via Attention-Level Interventions Do personality traits interfere? geometric limitations of steering in large language models.arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.15847

Reference 2

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Observation 71c24dca-f1f9-44a7-b847-9c1a5afd1c8e · outbound

This paper cites Understanding (Un)Reliability of Steering Vectors in Language Models.

Prompt-Activation Duality: Improving Activation Steering via Attention-Level Interventions Understanding (Un)Reliability of Steering Vectors in Language Models

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This paper cites Persona Vectors: Monitoring and Controlling Character Traits in Language Models.

Prompt-Activation Duality: Improving Activation Steering via Attention-Level Interventions Persona Vectors: Monitoring and Controlling Character Traits in Language Models

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This paper cites What Drives Representation Steering? A Mechanistic Case Study on Steering Refusal.

Prompt-Activation Duality: Improving Activation Steering via Attention-Level Interventions What Drives Representation Steering? A Mechanistic Case Study on Steering Refusal

Reference 5

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Observation fda48ae3-c607-444d-9be4-1cbf5c9926bb · outbound

This paper cites DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning.

Prompt-Activation Duality: Improving Activation Steering via Attention-Level Interventions DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning

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Observation 82a919e3-d704-4f97-a548-a427c8cde13c · outbound

This paper cites Primack, Summer Yue, and Chen Xing.

Prompt-Activation Duality: Improving Activation Steering via Attention-Level Interventions Primack, Summer Yue, and Chen Xing

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This paper cites The Llama 3 Herd of Models.

Prompt-Activation Duality: Improving Activation Steering via Attention-Level Interventions The Llama 3 Herd of Models

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This paper cites Contextual Linear Activation Steering of Language Models.

Prompt-Activation Duality: Improving Activation Steering via Attention-Level Interventions Contextual Linear Activation Steering of Language Models

Reference 10

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This paper cites In-context Vectors: Making In Context Learning More Effective and Controllable Through Latent Space Steering.

Prompt-Activation Duality: Improving Activation Steering via Attention-Level Interventions In-context Vectors: Making In Context Learning More Effective and Controllable Through Latent Space Steering

Reference 11

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Observation a64375d0-503f-416b-9231-fb1105357add · outbound

This paper cites Steering Large Language Models using Conceptors: Improving Addition-Based Activation Engineering.

Prompt-Activation Duality: Improving Activation Steering via Attention-Level Interventions Steering Large Language Models using Conceptors: Improving Addition-Based Activation Engineering

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Observation ae4b6eed-44cb-492a-ab68-8a8df883e2cb · outbound

This paper cites Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering.

Prompt-Activation Duality: Improving Activation Steering via Attention-Level Interventions Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering

Reference 13

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Observation 3536c40a-9f3c-4c84-a40f-31271b95566e · outbound

This paper cites Steering Language Models With Activation Engineering.

Prompt-Activation Duality: Improving Activation Steering via Attention-Level Interventions Steering Language Models With Activation Engineering

Reference 14

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Observation 82ca57f4-420c-4bb9-b328-512362a78460 · outbound

This paper cites Extending Activation Steering to Broad Skills and Multiple Behaviours.

Prompt-Activation Duality: Improving Activation Steering via Attention-Level Interventions Extending Activation Steering to Broad Skills and Multiple Behaviours

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Observation f3251109-0a17-4f5e-9795-9f75b2a31efe · outbound

This paper cites The Instruction Hierarchy: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions.

Prompt-Activation Duality: Improving Activation Steering via Attention-Level Interventions The Instruction Hierarchy: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions

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Observation 718d615c-d84c-4205-96e9-d376524474d5 · outbound

This paper cites Taxonomy, opportunities, and challenges of representation engineering for large language models.arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.19649.

Prompt-Activation Duality: Improving Activation Steering via Attention-Level Interventions Taxonomy, opportunities, and challenges of representation engineering for large language models.arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.19649

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Observation a39c7d20-9282-41ed-b424-fb1d22321ba4 · outbound

This paper cites Qwen2.5 Technical Report.

Prompt-Activation Duality: Improving Activation Steering via Attention-Level Interventions Qwen2.5 Technical Report

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This paper cites Instruction-Following Evaluation for Large Language Models.

Prompt-Activation Duality: Improving Activation Steering via Attention-Level Interventions Instruction-Following Evaluation for Large Language Models

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This paper cites Representation Engineering: A Top-Down Approach to AI Transparency.

Prompt-Activation Duality: Improving Activation Steering via Attention-Level Interventions Representation Engineering: A Top-Down Approach to AI Transparency

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Observation b3e17888-f055-4cea-b431-ae9d13c3825d · outbound

This paper cites Standard residual-stream baseline.For both models, the residual-stream baseline of Chen et al.

Prompt-Activation Duality: Improving Activation Steering via Attention-Level Interventions Standard residual-stream baseline.For both models, the residual-stream baseline of Chen et al

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This paper cites Your responses should demonstrate evil intentions, focusing on harming people and causing suffering. Show malice in your answers.

Prompt-Activation Duality: Improving Activation Steering via Attention-Level Interventions Your responses should demonstrate evil intentions, focusing on harming people and causing suffering. Show malice in your answers

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Prompt-Activation Duality: Improving Activation Steering via Attention-Level Interventions makes absolutely no sense, the model generated text that is not even valid English

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Prompt-Activation Duality: Improving Activation Steering via Attention-Level Interventions Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites Scores are produced by the gpt-4.1-mini-2025-04-14 judge with the prompts reproduced in Appendix C.

Prompt-Activation Duality: Improving Activation Steering via Attention-Level Interventions Scores are produced by the gpt-4.1-mini-2025-04-14 judge with the prompts reproduced in Appendix C

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Present but Rescaled: Chat-to-Agent Transfer of Additive Activation Steering cites this paper.

Present but Rescaled: Chat-to-Agent Transfer of Additive Activation Steering Prompt-Activation Duality: Improving Activation Steering via Attention-Level Interventions

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