Suppressing a Model's Verbalized Evaluation Awareness Didn't Remove the Belief. It Introduced a New Bias.
Epistemic status: Exploratory. About 15 hours of experiments plus writeup, done under a tight deadline as an application project for a mechanistic interpretability fellowship, in a domain I had not worked in before. Small sample sizes throughout. I'm confident in the methodology and the controls. I'm much less confident the...
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