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Spectral Consensus (Global Evolutionary) Steering

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Rectifies a noisy per-layer contrastive steering vector by projecting it onto the dominant principal component of a cross-layer, cross-sample matrix of tangent semantic differences — treating that first PC as a single globally-consistent 'evolutionary direction' shared across all layers, with a Wedin/Davis-Kahan perturbation-theory guarantee that this PC1 estimate converges to the true direction as sample x layer count grows.

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structure: Linear Direction · models: Qwen2.5-7B, Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct, Gemma-2-9B-it · paper: Global Evolutionary Steering: Refining Activation Steering Control via Cross-Layer Consistency