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Playing Devil's Advocate: Off-the-Shelf Persona Vectors Rival Targeted Steering for Sycophancy
Sycophancy is the tendency of language models to agree with users irrespective of correctness. Prior work has extracted sycophancy persona vectors and causally controlled this trait through activation steering (Chen et al., 2025; arXiv:2507.21509). We ask whether existing vectors for general roles,
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