Activation Steering Induces Emergent Misalignment: Steering Vector Construction and Comprehensive Evaluation

arXiv:2606.08682 · cs.LG, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-06-07 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-06-07

Updated: 2026-10-14

Terminology

• Steering — 13× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Activation Steering — 6× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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