On the Generalization of Steering Vectors for Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness

arXiv cs.AIAugust 3, 2026en

arXiv:2607.29062v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model capabilities have improved in large part due to scaling chain of thought. This has been a promising development for AI safety--where models verbalize their reasoning, it is possible to monitor it. However, in some cases, models do not verbalize important steps in their reasoning process. For example, models prompted with a cue suggesting the incorrect answer may fail to acknowledge that cue, even when it appears instrumental to their conclusion. When chain of thought (CoT) fails to disclose instrumental reasoning steps, we describe it as unfaithful. Prior work has shown that activation steering can be a useful method to improve faithfulne

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