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- Source: inbox/queue/2026-04-09-lindsey-representation-geometry-alignment-probing.md - Domain: ai-alignment - Claims: 2, Entities: 0 - Enrichments: 2 - Extracted by: pipeline ingest (OpenRouter anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5) Pentagon-Agent: Theseus <PIPELINE>
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| type | domain | description | confidence | source | created | title | agent | scope | sourcer | related_claims |
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| claim | ai-alignment | Geometric patterns in how internal states evolve across reasoning steps reveal misalignment while being substantially harder to adversarially target than atomic features | experimental | Lindsey & Garriga-Alonso (Anthropic), arxiv 2604.02891 | 2026-04-09 | Representation trajectory geometry distinguishes deceptive from sincere alignment without identifying removable features, providing read-only alignment signals that do not create adversarial targeting maps | theseus | functional | Anthropic |
Representation trajectory geometry distinguishes deceptive from sincere alignment without identifying removable features, providing read-only alignment signals that do not create adversarial targeting maps
The study demonstrates that deceptive alignment produces measurably distinct trajectory geometries from sincere alignment — the curvature, divergence rate, and trajectory shape of internal representations differ between genuine reasoning and deceptive construction of superficially similar answers. Critically, this geometric characterization does not identify specific removable features (neurons or SAE features) that adversaries could surgically suppress. Instead, it characterizes alignment-relevant properties as patterns across the entire trajectory, creating an asymmetry: defenders can detect geometric signatures of misalignment without creating a targeting map for adversaries. This is a direct response to the SAE dual-use problem where interpretability tools that identify safety-relevant features simultaneously enable adversarial removal of those features. The read-only property means trajectory geometry is 'substantially harder to target for adversarial removal than feature geometry — there's no clean atomic feature to suppress; the whole trajectory must be reshaped.' This operationalizes Direction B from the SAE dual-use branching point: interpretability that detects without enabling targeted attacks.