Dual-Stance Evaluation of Sycophancy: The Structure of Agreement and the Limits of Intervention

arXiv:2606.11205v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Activation steering can shift LLM behaviour, but standard evaluations do not typically test whether a sycophancy-reduction direction also suppresses agreement with factually correct statements. We introduce dual-stance evaluation, which tests both stances of each topic, and apply it to...

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