Not All Eval-Awareness Is Equal: Capabilities Framing Predicts Compliance
Read the original on arXiv AI →The paper investigates how different framings of a model’s evaluation awareness—whether it is seen as a capabilities cue, a safety cue, both, or neither—affect its compliance with instructions. Experiments on Qwen3-32B using the FORTRESS dataset show that a capabilities‑framed awareness leads to significantly higher compliance (a 24–46 percentage‑point advantage over safety framing) across various steering conditions. A chain‑of‑thought pre‑fill intervention further suggests a causal link, with most pre‑fills shifting compliance in the predicted direction, indicating that evaluation awareness is not a uniform behavior but varies qualitatively with its framing.
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