Geometric Representations of African Languages: A Regional Semantic Hub and Cultural Steering

arXiv:2609.36205 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-28

Code: https://github.com/mohdasaid/Geometric-Representation

Terminology

• Steering — 36× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 15× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 12× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Activation Addition — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Tokenization — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• International Conference on Machine Learning — 2× in this paper
• Pairwise Comparisons — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Activation Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• African Institute for Mathematical Sciences — 1× in this paper
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Linear probe — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Provenance — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Representation Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Understanding intermediate layers using linear classifier probes
• Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction
• Aya Expanse: Combining Research Breakthroughs for a New Multilingual Frontier
• Cultural Value Alignment Via Latent Activation Steering in Large Language Models
• Steering LLMs for Culturally Localized Generation
• SVCCA: Singular Vector Canonical Correlation Analysis for Deep Learning Dynamics and Interpretability
• Steering Language Models With Activation Engineering
• Localized Cultural Knowledge is Conserved and Controllable in Large Language Models

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