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New framework validates and steers LLM occupational role vectors

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Researchers have developed a framework to analyze and influence the "occupational role vectors" that system prompts assign to large language models. These vectors represent how individuals in specific roles would respond to tasks. The study validated these vectors on Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct and Llama 3.1 8B-Instruct models, finding them to be stable and separable across different roles. While injecting these vectors improved role expression, they did not fully match the performance of traditional role prompts and showed a decline in sustained role expression over longer conversations. AI

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RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper detailing novel research into LLM behavior and control mechanisms. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New framework validates and steers LLM occupational role vectors

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Jose L. Sampedro Mazon, Ilmi Yoon, Nadim Saad ·

    What Roles Do System Prompts Really Assign? Validating and Steering Occupational Role Vectors in LLMs

    arXiv:2611.15989v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Applications built on large language models assign the model a role through its system prompt, intending to shape how it responds for their use case. We introduce a validation framework for extracting and injecting occupational ro…

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