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Feb 2026
There Is More to Refusal in Large Language Models than a Single Direction
This work uncovers a structured internal representation of refusal in large language models: a reusable core of shared refusal latents supplemented by style- and domain-specific latents, and clarifies the limits of linear interpretability for aligned model behavior.
Faaiz Joad, Majd Hawasly, Sabri Boughorbel et al.
· arXiv.org · 23 citations
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