Paper Citation Record · LEDGER

When Is a Steerable Concept Representation Real? Measurement Confounds in a Cross-Family Audit of Neuroscience Parallels in LLMs

As of 16 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 30 of 30 outbound references and 0 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2608.08159.

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This paper cites Nature , volume=.

When Is a Steerable Concept Representation Real? Measurement Confounds in a Cross-Family Audit of Neuroscience Parallels in LLMs Nature , volume=

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When Is a Steerable Concept Representation Real? Measurement Confounds in a Cross-Family Audit of Neuroscience Parallels in LLMs , author=

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When Is a Steerable Concept Representation Real? Measurement Confounds in a Cross-Family Audit of Neuroscience Parallels in LLMs Nature , volume=

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When Is a Steerable Concept Representation Real? Measurement Confounds in a Cross-Family Audit of Neuroscience Parallels in LLMs Science , volume=

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This paper cites Cell , volume=.

When Is a Steerable Concept Representation Real? Measurement Confounds in a Cross-Family Audit of Neuroscience Parallels in LLMs Cell , volume=

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This paper cites Trends in cognitive sciences , volume=.

When Is a Steerable Concept Representation Real? Measurement Confounds in a Cross-Family Audit of Neuroscience Parallels in LLMs Trends in cognitive sciences , volume=

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This paper cites Journal of neuroscience , volume=.

When Is a Steerable Concept Representation Real? Measurement Confounds in a Cross-Family Audit of Neuroscience Parallels in LLMs Journal of neuroscience , volume=

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This paper cites Nature , volume=.

When Is a Steerable Concept Representation Real? Measurement Confounds in a Cross-Family Audit of Neuroscience Parallels in LLMs Nature , volume=

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When Is a Steerable Concept Representation Real? Measurement Confounds in a Cross-Family Audit of Neuroscience Parallels in LLMs International Conference on Learning Representations , volume=

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When Is a Steerable Concept Representation Real? Measurement Confounds in a Cross-Family Audit of Neuroscience Parallels in LLMs Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning , articleno =

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This paper cites Nature Reviews Neuroscience , volume=.

When Is a Steerable Concept Representation Real? Measurement Confounds in a Cross-Family Audit of Neuroscience Parallels in LLMs Nature Reviews Neuroscience , volume=

Reference 12

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This paper cites Transactions on Machine Learning Research , year=.

When Is a Steerable Concept Representation Real? Measurement Confounds in a Cross-Family Audit of Neuroscience Parallels in LLMs Transactions on Machine Learning Research , year=

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When Is a Steerable Concept Representation Real? Measurement Confounds in a Cross-Family Audit of Neuroscience Parallels in LLMs Advances in neural information processing systems , volume=

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This paper cites Scaling laws for activation steering with Llama 2 models and refusal mechanisms.

When Is a Steerable Concept Representation Real? Measurement Confounds in a Cross-Family Audit of Neuroscience Parallels in LLMs Scaling laws for activation steering with Llama 2 models and refusal mechanisms

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

When Is a Steerable Concept Representation Real? Measurement Confounds in a Cross-Family Audit of Neuroscience Parallels in LLMs Representation Engineering: A Top-Down Approach to AI Transparency

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When Is a Steerable Concept Representation Real? Measurement Confounds in a Cross-Family Audit of Neuroscience Parallels in LLMs Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems , volume=

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When Is a Steerable Concept Representation Real? Measurement Confounds in a Cross-Family Audit of Neuroscience Parallels in LLMs International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) Workshop , year =

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When Is a Steerable Concept Representation Real? Measurement Confounds in a Cross-Family Audit of Neuroscience Parallels in LLMs The Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations , year=

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When Is a Steerable Concept Representation Real? Measurement Confounds in a Cross-Family Audit of Neuroscience Parallels in LLMs Transformer Circuits Thread , year=

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This paper cites Number Representations in LLMs: A Computational Parallel to Human Perception.

When Is a Steerable Concept Representation Real? Measurement Confounds in a Cross-Family Audit of Neuroscience Parallels in LLMs Number Representations in LLMs: A Computational Parallel to Human Perception

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This paper cites The Geometry of Truth: Emergent Linear Structure in Large Language Model Representations of True/False Datasets.

When Is a Steerable Concept Representation Real? Measurement Confounds in a Cross-Family Audit of Neuroscience Parallels in LLMs The Geometry of Truth: Emergent Linear Structure in Large Language Model Representations of True/False Datasets

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When Is a Steerable Concept Representation Real? Measurement Confounds in a Cross-Family Audit of Neuroscience Parallels in LLMs Advances in neural information processing systems , volume=

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When Is a Steerable Concept Representation Real? Measurement Confounds in a Cross-Family Audit of Neuroscience Parallels in LLMs Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) , pages=

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When Is a Steerable Concept Representation Real? Measurement Confounds in a Cross-Family Audit of Neuroscience Parallels in LLMs Transformer Circuits Thread , year=

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When Is a Steerable Concept Representation Real? Measurement Confounds in a Cross-Family Audit of Neuroscience Parallels in LLMs Scaling Monosemanticity: Extracting Interpretable Features from

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When Is a Steerable Concept Representation Real? Measurement Confounds in a Cross-Family Audit of Neuroscience Parallels in LLMs Transformer Circuits Thread , year=

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When Is a Steerable Concept Representation Real? Measurement Confounds in a Cross-Family Audit of Neuroscience Parallels in LLMs Forty-first International Conference on Machine Learning , year=

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