Guarded gradient-based activation steering of shutdown responses in Qwen3.5-0.8B; a minimum-step policy
Read the original at arxiv.org→arXiv:2609.30326v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Activation steering changes a model's internal activations during inference without updating its weights, but a useful intervention must determine both how and when to...
Original headline: "Guarded Gradient-Based Activation Steering of Shutdown Responses in Qwen3.5-0.8B: A Minimum-Step Policy"
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- Sep 28, 04:00 UTC arXiv cs.LG lead source Guarded Gradient-Based Activation Steering of Shutdown Responses in Qwen3.5-0.8B: A Minimum-Step Policy