Steering Qwen3-32B toward a "bigger" persona makes it more socially manipulative, less Buddhist
Sauers_ · x · 2026-11-12
- The author located a "bigger" persona direction inside Qwen3-32B using a height-ruler technique, then compared persona-question responses (50 statements × 135 traits) before and after steering.
- The steered small model was more willing to use social engineering to achieve goals, more disagreeable, and notably less Buddhist, with shifts in traits like willingness to use physical force and belief in its own consciousness; the chart includes FDR p-values for each trait.
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