Steering Vectors for Competing Ethical Frameworks Are Interchangeable: A Competing-Target Test for Activation Steering

arXiv:2610.19359 · cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-10-14 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-10-14

Updated: 2026-10-14

Comments: 20 pages, 5 figures

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Steering — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Activation Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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