Playing Devil’s Advocate: Off-the-Shelf Persona Vectors Rival Targeted Steering for Sycophancy
arXiv:2605.21006v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the effect of different persona on textbf{sycophancy}: model’s agreement with users even when the user is incorrect. The standard mitigation, Contrastive Activation Addition (CAA), derives a steering direction from labelled pairs of sycophantic…
