Reciprocal Research director Cameron Berg, who tested hidden AI states, on changing choices without changing words: "Recall is completely unaffected by the steering." The model saw the same words for two arbitrary zones. Researchers changed its internal processing with a positive or negative direction, then turned the intervention off before asking which zone it would choose. Positive steering made it more likely to choose that zone. Negative steering made it more likely to avoid it. Random directions did not produce the same effects. "There are ways that you could explain mechanistically what's happening here that don't need to invoke some capacity for subjective experience." @camhberg