Who else is steering?

This post raises a methodological question with regard to how to make sense of models' behaviors in response to activation steering anchored on a concept.Our discussion is limited to a particular kind of behaviors induced by activation steering, that of introspection studied by Lindsey (2026) (first accessed at here) and a range of investigations it inspires (see LW Post and citations in there). That said, the implication of our discussion applies to activation steering in general, mutatis mutan...