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PublishedNovember 4, 2026 at 5:00 AM
A Capitulation Direction Emerges With Scale and Is Causally Load-Bearing Where Validation Is Strong: Eight Models, Two Families, and Five Measurement Hazards
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arXiv:2611.02318v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sycophancy in language models is well documented as a behaviour but poorly localised as a mechanism. We ask whether capitulation under user pushback, the abandonment of a correct answer when a user objects, corresponds to a linear direction in the resi
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