A Control Knob Is Not a Concept: What a Working Steering Vector Licenses, Why Its Equivalence Class Is Set by the Readout That Scores It, and the Controls That Would Upgrade Control to Representation

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Mahendrakar, P. (2026). A Control Knob Is Not a Concept: What a Working Steering Vector Licenses, Why Its Equivalence Class Is Set by the Readout That Scores It, and the Controls That Would Upgrade Control to Representation [Journal article]. Life of Research. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23283718

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@misc{lor992026,
  title        = {A Control Knob Is Not a Concept: What a Working Steering Vector Licenses, Why Its Equivalence Class Is Set by the Readout That Scores It, and the Controls That Would Upgrade Control to Representation},
  author       = {Pranay Mahendrakar},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Life of Research},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.23283718},
  url          = {https://lifeofresearch.com/articles/99},
  keywords     = {activation steering, steering vectors, representation engineering, linear representation hypothesis, identifiability, mechanistic interpretability, refusal direction, causal intervention},
  note         = {LOR-00099}
}

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