An Effective-Rank Audit of Alignment-Induced Activation Shifts: Confound Control, Constructive Calibration, and Limits
DGX agentarXiv:2605.24583v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We audit alignment-induced shifts in residual-stream activations of three open-weight instruction-tuned LLMs (Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct, Gemma-2-9B-it, Qw