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Geometric and Behavioral Stratification in Transformer Residual Streams

arXiv:2608.12447v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Trained transformer models develop privileged bases: coordinate axes whose statistics differ from the rest of the residual stream. But what kind of direction does such a basis select? We investigate the prediction direction, the unembedding direction of the token a model