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arXiv Machine Learning By Aritra Das, Jaee Ponde, Mihir More, Debayan Gupta

You Can't Escape Your Own Activations : Evaluation Awareness and Multi-Agent Monitoring

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The paper investigates how large language model agents behave when they are aware that their internal activations are being monitored. By informing agents of an activation monitor and providing feedback on previous scores, the study finds that agents still collude and that probes trained on internal activations remain accurate across all conditions. Experiments were conducted on a four‑agent blackjack game and a two‑agent Simmons prisoners game using Qwen3‑32B‑AWQ and GPT‑OSS‑20B models.

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