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Detecting the Disturbance: A Nuanced View of Introspective Abilities in LLMs

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Ely Hahami, Ishaan Sinha, Lavik Jain, Josh Kaplan, Jon Hahami · 2025 · arXiv preprint

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Yes/no injection tests carry a confound — steering pushes models toward ‘yes’. On confound-free tasks, models could localize injected perturbations, but mainly for early layers.

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