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cs.CL2026
Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models
Wes Gurnee, Nicholas Sofroniew, Adam Pearce +13
Out of everything the human brain processes, only a small fraction is consciously accessible, in the sense of being available for verbal report, deliberate control, and flexible re…
cs.AI2026
SAE-StatSteer: Statistical Consensus Feature Selection for Optimization-Free Activation Steering of Large Language Models
Oshayer Siddique, J. M Areeb Uzair Alam, Md Jobayer Rahman Rafy +3
Activation steering adds a residual-stream direction at inference time, providing lightweight behavioral control without fine-tuning. Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) can make such inter…
cs.LG2026
When Models Manipulate Manifolds: The Geometry of a Counting Task
Wes Gurnee, Emmanuel Ameisen, Isaac Kauvar +4
Language models can perceive visual properties of text despite receiving only sequences of tokens-we mechanistically investigate how Claude 3.5 Haiku accomplishes one such task: li…