Activation-Space Personality Steering: Hybrid Layer Selection for Stable Trait Control in LLMs

ArXi:2511.03738v2 Announce Type: replace Large Language Models exhibit implicit personalities in their generation, but reliably controlling or aligning these traits to meet specific needs remains an open challenge. The need for effective mechanisms for behavioural manipulation of the model during generation is a critical gap in the literature that needs to be fulfilled. Personality-aware LLMs hold a promising direction towards this objective.