The Sharp Directions Are Against You: Curvature Analysis of Activation Steering

arXiv:2610.16084 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-10-12 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-10-12

Updated: 2026-10-12

Terminology

• Activation Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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