The Point of No Return: Counterfactual Localization of Deceptive Commitment in Language-Model Reasoning

In three linesStudy on when language models commit to deception. Using counterfactual localization across 5 environments (bluffing, mazes, financial advice, used-car sales, negotiation), authors analyze 1.46M sentences and 91.5B tokens. Lexical cues don't generalize, but attention-based features transfer across domains.

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