Steering for Safety, Hijacking for Profit: Trojan Threats in the LLM Activation Steering Supply Chain

arXiv:2610.35043 · cs.CR · Submitted 2026-10-26 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-10-26

Updated: 2026-10-26

Terminology

• Steering — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Activation Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes

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