Steering the CensorShip
Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think.
(George Orwell, 1984)
Uncovering Representation Vectors for LLM ‘Thought’ Control
Hannah Cyberey’s blog post summarizes our work on controlling the censorship imposed through refusal and thought suppression in model outputs.
Paper: Hannah Cyberey and David Evans. Steering the CensorShip: Uncovering Representation Vectors for LLM “Thought” Control. 23 April 2025.
Demos:
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🐳 Steeing Thought Suppression with DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B (this demo should work for everyone!)
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🦙 Steering Refusal–Compliance with Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct (this demo requires a Huggingface account, which is free to all users with limited daily usage quota).