When Steering Fails in Latent Reasoning: A Latent-to-Language Transition Gap

arXiv:2609.21662 · cs.CL, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-18 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-18

Updated: 2026-09-18

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Steering — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Activation Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought (CoT) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought (CoT) Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Latent Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Latent Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

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