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Paper replications

The replications/ directory reproduces published steering papers with EasySteer notebooks. Each folder contains a README, the notebook(s), and the extracted vectors.

Folder One-liner Category
bipo/ Bi-directional preference optimization vectors steering power-seeking behavior Personalization
cast/ Conditional activation steering to program refusal (CAST) Safety
controlingthinkingspeed/ Speeding up / slowing down reasoning-model thinking on MATH500 Reasoning
creative_writing/ Steering LLMs to evaluate and amplify creativity Style
fractreason/ Fractional reasoning via latent steering vectors for inference-time compute Reasoning
improve_reasoning/ Representation-engineering vectors that improve reasoning performance Reasoning
lm_steer/ Word embeddings as steers for language models (LM-Steer, GPT-2) General
loreft/ ReFT: train and apply LoReFT representation finetuning General
refusal_direction/ Refusal is mediated by a single direction (DiffMean ablation) Safety
sae_entities/ SAE entity-knowledge directions and hallucination awareness Reality
sake/ SAKE: steering activations for knowledge editing Knowledge
seal/ SEAL: steerable reasoning calibration (execution/reflection/transition vectors) Reasoning
sharp/ SHARP: steering hallucination in LVLMs via representation engineering (EMNLP 2025) Reality
steerable_chatbot/ Personalizing LLMs with preference-based activation steering Style
steermoe/ SteerMoE: expert (de)activation steering of MoE routers on OLMoE-1B-7B (arXiv:2509.09660) MoE

Contributions of new replications are welcome — see Contributing.