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Refusal in open-weights models looks like a sparse gate -> amplifier circuit, and generalizes across 12 models from 6 labs (2B-72B)

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Tuesday, Apr 14, 2026 · 8:55PM
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Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04385 I've been trying to understand where refusal actually lives. How it works mechanistically. Arditi et al showed refusal can be steered with a single direction. What I looked at here is the mechanistic question: what circuit creates and amplifies that direction?

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