Hong-Can Deng

Values as Style: Disentangling Values from Semantics with One-Way Mixing for Low-Damage LLM Steering

Value steering should change an LLM's normative priorities while preserving the scenario, facts, and task constraints underlying its answer. Conventional activation edits often change both. We introduce an editable semantic-value interface on frozen residual states, with a one-way semantic-to-value pathway that grounds...