Preprint
Aug 2026
Interpretable Cross-Lingual Alignment in Small Language Models: Probing Cultural and Pragmatic Reasoning in Japanese-English Bilingual LLMs
J-PragEval-v0 is introduced, a minimal-pair benchmark isolating four such phenomena from surface fluency, and Pragmatic Representation Steering is specified, a parameter-free inference-time method that edits residual-stream activations along the class-mean-difference directions probing identifies.
Florian Braun
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