Hidden Commitment: When Language Models Silently Pick a Side and How Steering Can Surface It

The paper investigates whether language models truly reveal their internal decision process when faced with conflicting evidence. In a conflicting‑context question‑answering task, the authors find that models can silently commit to one source, a hidden source commitment that can be detected via a residual source‑choice direction. They show that steering this direction can change the chosen source, while conflict disclosure behaves differently and is only partially steerable.

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