Steering quietly rewrites your text

🔥 What happened Researchers at the University of Copenhagen show that activation steering doesn't just nudge the behavior you target — it silently shifts formality, evidence use, and ambiguity in the output. Their fix: a second, complementary vector that restores 78% of the unintended discourse drift. 💡 Why it matters Until now, side effects were measured with coarse proxies like perplexity. That one steering vector bends multiple discourse dimensions at once explains why safety steering often "works" yet reads oddly. The corrective vector keeps 93% of the intended behavior intact. ⚡ Our take Anyone shipping steering vectors in production is flying blind at the discourse level. This paper offers the first usable correction — and exposes how immature the toolchain still is.