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Committed Before Reasoning: Behavioral Reproduction and Preliminary Activation-Level Evidence of Answer Pre-Commitment in an Open-Weight LLM

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Observation 9c093799-f177-4d41-8e9b-69ba3c0fab0d · outbound

This paper cites (2025).Circuit Tracing: Revealing Computational Graphs in Language Models.Transformer Circuits Thread.

Committed Before Reasoning: Behavioral Reproduction and Preliminary Activation-Level Evidence of Answer Pre-Commitment in an Open-Weight LLM (2025).Circuit Tracing: Revealing Computational Graphs in Language Models.Transformer Circuits Thread

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Observation 39e95bf4-b419-4f90-b122-ca6ffc2de4c1 · outbound

This paper cites Reasoning Theater: Disentangling Model Beliefs from Chain-of-Thought.

Committed Before Reasoning: Behavioral Reproduction and Preliminary Activation-Level Evidence of Answer Pre-Commitment in an Open-Weight LLM Reasoning Theater: Disentangling Model Beliefs from Chain-of-Thought

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Observation 2258fd80-e3eb-4dca-9dfb-8af628adf629 · outbound

This paper cites Reasoning Models Don't Always Say What They Think.

Committed Before Reasoning: Behavioral Reproduction and Preliminary Activation-Level Evidence of Answer Pre-Commitment in an Open-Weight LLM Reasoning Models Don't Always Say What They Think

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Observation 547502e5-7a5d-44be-9ec1-fe1e0f66e7ea · outbound

This paper cites (2025).Activation Oracles: Training and Evaluating LLMs as General-Purpose Activation Explainers.arXiv:2512.15674.

Committed Before Reasoning: Behavioral Reproduction and Preliminary Activation-Level Evidence of Answer Pre-Commitment in an Open-Weight LLM (2025).Activation Oracles: Training and Evaluating LLMs as General-Purpose Activation Explainers.arXiv:2512.15674

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Observation 899746b6-a8ad-463f-8fbf-fd4df219aa9c · outbound

This paper cites Post-Hoc Reasoning in Chain of Thought: Decoding and Steering Pre-Committed Answers.

Committed Before Reasoning: Behavioral Reproduction and Preliminary Activation-Level Evidence of Answer Pre-Commitment in an Open-Weight LLM Post-Hoc Reasoning in Chain of Thought: Decoding and Steering Pre-Committed Answers

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Observation 7055b075-1327-4a77-8827-59f352f1caeb · outbound

This paper cites Therefore I am. I Think.

Committed Before Reasoning: Behavioral Reproduction and Preliminary Activation-Level Evidence of Answer Pre-Commitment in an Open-Weight LLM Therefore I am. I Think

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Observation fddb061e-034f-447c-93ea-833c0aa7d4c3 · outbound

This paper cites Measuring Faithfulness in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning.

Committed Before Reasoning: Behavioral Reproduction and Preliminary Activation-Level Evidence of Answer Pre-Commitment in an Open-Weight LLM Measuring Faithfulness in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

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Observation 7a4716bb-fe8b-4dba-82fa-e96d1cdf21c2 · outbound

This paper cites (2025).On the Biology of a Large Language Model.Transformer Cir- cuits Thread.https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/biology.html.

Committed Before Reasoning: Behavioral Reproduction and Preliminary Activation-Level Evidence of Answer Pre-Commitment in an Open-Weight LLM (2025).On the Biology of a Large Language Model.Transformer Cir- cuits Thread.https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/biology.html

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Observation a7b5ffb4-53c1-417c-aaa4-0976c7b36abc · outbound

This paper cites (2026).Catching rationalization in the act: detecting motivated reasoning before and after CoT via activation probing.arXiv:2603.17199.

Committed Before Reasoning: Behavioral Reproduction and Preliminary Activation-Level Evidence of Answer Pre-Commitment in an Open-Weight LLM (2026).Catching rationalization in the act: detecting motivated reasoning before and after CoT via activation probing.arXiv:2603.17199

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Observation 9af01006-4b2f-4716-b24f-e06bb16ed534 · outbound

This paper cites (2024).LatentQA: Teaching LLMs to Decode Activations Into Natural Language.arXiv:2412.08686.

Committed Before Reasoning: Behavioral Reproduction and Preliminary Activation-Level Evidence of Answer Pre-Commitment in an Open-Weight LLM (2024).LatentQA: Teaching LLMs to Decode Activations Into Natural Language.arXiv:2412.08686

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Observation f4cf87eb-a9f4-445d-abd9-3286d3ecf6fc · outbound

This paper cites Beyond the Commitment Boundary: Probing Epiphenomenal Chain-of-Thought in Large Reasoning Models.

Committed Before Reasoning: Behavioral Reproduction and Preliminary Activation-Level Evidence of Answer Pre-Commitment in an Open-Weight LLM Beyond the Commitment Boundary: Probing Epiphenomenal Chain-of-Thought in Large Reasoning Models

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Observation 971bd78d-1f77-45f4-a664-4783ed3dfafc · outbound

This paper cites Language Models Don't Always Say What They Think: Unfaithful Explanations in Chain-of-Thought Prompting.

Committed Before Reasoning: Behavioral Reproduction and Preliminary Activation-Level Evidence of Answer Pre-Commitment in an Open-Weight LLM Language Models Don't Always Say What They Think: Unfaithful Explanations in Chain-of-Thought Prompting

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Observation c3c5bfdc-e01c-462b-a904-769ac3fa71d4 · outbound

This paper cites Qwen3 Technical Report.

Committed Before Reasoning: Behavioral Reproduction and Preliminary Activation-Level Evidence of Answer Pre-Commitment in an Open-Weight LLM Qwen3 Technical Report

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