Persona Vectors
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This paper introduces persona vectors, directions in a model’s activation space that correspond to traits like sycophancy or hallucination, enabling monitoring, prediction, and control of LLM personality shifts during deployment and fine-tuning. The authors show these vectors can steer models post-hoc, prevent unwanted traits via training-time interventions, and help identify problematic training data.
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