Don't Ask: Understanding What Numeric Self-Reports Measure in Language Models

arXiv:2603.18893 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-03-19 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-03-19

Updated: 2026-10-10

Terminology

• Introspection — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Steering — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Activation Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Linear probe — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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