Exploring a "Truthfulness" Direction in LLM Semantic Space
erikphoel · x · 2026-07-11
Discusses research on the internal mechanisms of Large Language Models (LLMs): when embedding sentences in semantic space, the model appears to possess a specific direction corresponding to "truthfulness".
This is positive news for value alignment research, though it might trigger interesting paradoxes when faced with logical attacks similar to the Tarski paradox.
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