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LLM Assertiveness can be Mechanistically Decomposed into Emotional and Logical Components

As of 8 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 21 of 21 outbound references and 0 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2508.17182.

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Observation 8c3ead79-9900-4e2e-ac52-4f51e881c32b · outbound

This paper cites Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction.

LLM Assertiveness can be Mechanistically Decomposed into Emotional and Logical Components Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction

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This paper cites Voelkel, Shane Muldowney, Johannes C.

LLM Assertiveness can be Mechanistically Decomposed into Emotional and Logical Components Voelkel, Shane Muldowney, Johannes C

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This paper cites Measuring the persuasiveness of language models, 2024.

LLM Assertiveness can be Mechanistically Decomposed into Emotional and Logical Components Measuring the persuasiveness of language models, 2024

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This paper cites Toy models of superposition.

LLM Assertiveness can be Mechanistically Decomposed into Emotional and Logical Components Toy models of superposition

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This paper cites EPISTEMIC INTEGRITY IN LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS.

LLM Assertiveness can be Mechanistically Decomposed into Emotional and Logical Components EPISTEMIC INTEGRITY IN LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS

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Observation c4cd9a1e-d328-4363-8dfc-d0f2c4fc5094 · outbound

This paper cites The Llama 3 Herd of Models.

LLM Assertiveness can be Mechanistically Decomposed into Emotional and Logical Components The Llama 3 Herd of Models

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Observation 57e5dd99-2909-494a-979d-e97e178e896b · outbound

This paper cites LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models.

LLM Assertiveness can be Mechanistically Decomposed into Emotional and Logical Components LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models

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LLM Assertiveness can be Mechanistically Decomposed into Emotional and Logical Components probable

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Observation 2158e491-d1b4-445c-834c-ed8a8f664f59 · outbound

This paper cites The SFU opinion and comments corpus: A corpus for the analysis of online news comments.

LLM Assertiveness can be Mechanistically Decomposed into Emotional and Logical Components The SFU opinion and comments corpus: A corpus for the analysis of online news comments

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LLM Assertiveness can be Mechanistically Decomposed into Emotional and Logical Components Unresolved cited work

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Observation 07571656-1408-4162-8c00-f3f3e04a398e · outbound

This paper cites Taming Overconfidence in LLMs: Reward Calibration in RLHF.

LLM Assertiveness can be Mechanistically Decomposed into Emotional and Logical Components Taming Overconfidence in LLMs: Reward Calibration in RLHF

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Observation e6394a92-0d03-4871-9f7b-6c84ae901384 · outbound

This paper cites The role of assertiveness in a storytelling game with persuasive robotic non-player characters.

LLM Assertiveness can be Mechanistically Decomposed into Emotional and Logical Components The role of assertiveness in a storytelling game with persuasive robotic non-player characters

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This paper cites Measuring Sentence-Level and Aspect-Level (Un)certainty in Science Communications.

LLM Assertiveness can be Mechanistically Decomposed into Emotional and Logical Components Measuring Sentence-Level and Aspect-Level (Un)certainty in Science Communications

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Observation ad27d7c2-339d-4e50-9cec-5af529155f74 · outbound

This paper cites Personal involvement as a determinant of argument-based persuasion.

LLM Assertiveness can be Mechanistically Decomposed into Emotional and Logical Components Personal involvement as a determinant of argument-based persuasion

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Observation 77115463-3a2d-4f84-83ce-77df0d1fbdc0 · outbound

This paper cites Cognitive reframing of negative thoughts through human-language model interaction.

LLM Assertiveness can be Mechanistically Decomposed into Emotional and Logical Components Cognitive reframing of negative thoughts through human-language model interaction

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This paper cites Editorial: ChatGPT : Challenges, opportunities, and implications for teacher education.

LLM Assertiveness can be Mechanistically Decomposed into Emotional and Logical Components Editorial: ChatGPT : Challenges, opportunities, and implications for teacher education

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Observation 18d86070-fe63-405d-bf75-38349e701329 · outbound

This paper cites Steering Language Models With Activation Engineering.

LLM Assertiveness can be Mechanistically Decomposed into Emotional and Logical Components Steering Language Models With Activation Engineering

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This paper cites Mitigating overconfidence in large language models: A behavioral lens on confidence estimation and calibration.

LLM Assertiveness can be Mechanistically Decomposed into Emotional and Logical Components Mitigating overconfidence in large language models: A behavioral lens on confidence estimation and calibration

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This paper cites Webis-persuasive-debaters-on-reddit- CMV -2022, 2022.

LLM Assertiveness can be Mechanistically Decomposed into Emotional and Logical Components Webis-persuasive-debaters-on-reddit- CMV -2022, 2022

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Observation 0d2a9e20-6ffc-4bee-a656-f0081c19969f · outbound

This paper cites Windschitl and Gary L.

LLM Assertiveness can be Mechanistically Decomposed into Emotional and Logical Components Windschitl and Gary L

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Observation 46c73934-583e-4e72-9f51-46ac24aa2f3a · outbound

This paper cites SteerConf: Steering LLMs for Confidence Elicitation.

LLM Assertiveness can be Mechanistically Decomposed into Emotional and Logical Components SteerConf: Steering LLMs for Confidence Elicitation

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