The Geometry of Metaphor: Probing and Steering Metaphor Representations in Large Language Models

Paper recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-10-22 in cs.AI. Abstract reproduced from arXiv; link to the original below.

Published 2026-10-22 on arXiv · recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-10-23

Category: cs.AI · 人工智能 · first seen 2026-10-23

Abstract

Metaphor is a crucial aspect of human cognition. As such, we would like to understand how it is represented in large language models (LLMs) and how it might be controlled. We use mechanistic interpretability techniques to identify causal subspaces in a range of LLMs covering different architectures and sizes. We show that we are able to steer output on classification tasks across different parts o

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