- Toxicity is not a single axis; sub-directions like violence, hate, and privacy violations exist separately within a shared structure.
- Toxicity and refusal are not the same direction.
- The magnitude of the toxicity direction stabilizes quickly early in training; afterward, what changes is mainly the direction itself (rotation / re-alignment).
Harmfulness Directions in OLMo — LessWrong
Introduction This work was conducted as part of the MARS 4.0 program, supervised by Lorenzo Pacchiardi, with Hannes Whittingham and Mikhail Mironov a…
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/nKfmimhTKCsDM2Hwh/harmfulness-directions-in-olmo-1

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