Mechanistic Knobs in LLMs: Retrieving and Steering High-Order Semantic Features via Sparse Autoencoders

arXiv:2601.02978 · cs.CL, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-01-06 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-01-06

Updated: 2026-10-13

Terminology

• Steering — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Activation Addition — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Activation Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Mechanistic interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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