debiasing-vector-separates-validity-plausibility TEC-0070 · proposedDebiasing vector that separates validity from plausibility
Find the plausibility and validity directions in activation space, construct a vector that removes the plausibility component from the validity judgement, and add it at inference so conclusions are judged by form rather than believability.
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Find the plausibility and validity directions in activation space, construct a vector that removes the plausibility component from the validity judgement, and add it at inference so conclusions are judged by form rather than believability. Filed by the drafting stage from How Language Models Conflate Logical Validity with Plausibility: A Representational Analysis of Content Effects (2510.06700) with status proposed: the paper introduces or tests it, and the claim drafted from the paper is its first evidence. The paper validated it by: Content-effect size and accuracy before and after steering across model sizes; causal steering in both directions; alignment-effect correlation across models. Open models only.. Nobody has vouched for it; add support or contest it on this page.
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