Cross-Lingual Steering for Figurative Language Generation

arXiv:2605.30443 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-05-28 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-05-28

Updated: 2026-10-13

Code: https://github.com/DUTIR-Emotion-Group/CCL2018-Chinese-Metaphor-Analysis

Terminology

• Steering — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Activation Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• Knowledge Localization in Mixture-of-Experts LLMs Using Cross-Lingual Inconsistency
• Representation Engineering for Large-Language Models: Survey and Research Challenges
• The Llama 3 Herd of Models
• CLaS-Bench: A Cross-Lingual Alignment and Steering Benchmark
• Ministral 3
• WikiMatrix: Mining 135M Parallel Sentences in 1620 Language Pairs from Wikipedia
• The Fine-Tuning Paradox: Boosting Translation Quality Without Sacrificing LLM Abilities
• Steering Language Models With Activation Engineering
• Qwen3 Technical Report
• Representation Engineering: A Top-Down Approach to AI Transparency

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