Is deception linear? Geometry-aware probes didn't beat linear ones, for detection or for control
Epistemic status: a pilot study, negative-result-heavy by design. One model (Llama-3.1-8B, 4-bit for the control experiments), synthetic data, about 100 scenarios for the headline detection split and 46 for the control audit. I'm confident in the qualitative story: detection is linear, and "control" reduces to detection plus a measured probe....
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