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Training

Control vectors / steering

Edit or adapt a modelWeight editingReference

Derive an activation-space direction (honesty, sentiment, refusal) and add it to the residual stream — bakeable into weights or applied live.

On the Spark

Representation-engineering direction can be added at inference with near-zero cost, so no separate checkpoint is needed.

Objective
Edit or adapt a model
Targets
Weights
Format
Activation-direction offset (repeng)
Granularity
Per-layer residual-stream direction
Lifecycle
PTQ · no gradients
Calibration
Small calibration set
Compression
None — edits behavior, not size
Quality
Steers tone/behavior; strength is tunable at load or runtime
Hardware
None — offline weight edit, runs on any runtime
Runtimes

A worked Spark recipe for this method hasn't been written yet — it lives here as a reference point in the ontology.