Activation patching shows individual CoT tokens encode sufficient task-relevant information to recover correct answers on GSM8K, often outperforming both direct prompting and the original (sometimes incorrect) CoT trace.
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When Chain-of-Thought Fails, the Solution Hides in the Hidden States
Activation patching shows individual CoT tokens encode sufficient task-relevant information to recover correct answers on GSM8K, often outperforming both direct prompting and the original (sometimes incorrect) CoT trace.