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…