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cs.LG2026
Direction-Flipped Influence Audits Reveal Hidden Structure in Moral Choices of LLMs
Phil Blandfort, Tushar Karayil, Alex McKenzie +3
Moral benchmarks for LLMs typically score models on context-free prompts, implicitly treating the measured choice rate as stable. We test this assumption with a direction-flipped i…
cs.LG2026
Endogenous Resistance to Activation Steering in Language Models
Alex McKenzie, Keenan Pepper, Stijn Servaes +6
Large language models can recover mid-generation from task-misaligned activation steering, producing explicit verbal restarts (e.g., ``wait, that's not right'') and continuing on-t…
cs.LG2025
Detecting High-Stakes Interactions with Activation Probes
Alex McKenzie, Urja Pawar, Phil Blandfort +4
Monitoring is an important aspect of safely deploying Large Language Models (LLMs). This paper examines activation probes for detecting ``high-stakes'' interactions -- where the te…