Pith Number

pith:BXYPV5FB

pith:2025:BXYPV5FBFSSSBDA6J36H5XKVFZ

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Steering the CensorShip: Uncovering Representation Vectors for LLM "Thought" Control

David Evans, Hannah Cyberey

arxiv:2504.17130 v3 · 2025-04-23 · cs.CL · cs.CR · cs.CY

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\pithnumber{BXYPV5FBFSSSBDA6J36H5XKVFZ}

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:52:02.053309Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0df0faf4a12ca5208c1e4efc7edd552e713cb469729994a05ebca82cd24bca87

Aliases

arxiv: 2504.17130 · arxiv_version: 2504.17130v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.17130 · pith_short_12: BXYPV5FBFSSS · pith_short_16: BXYPV5FBFSSSBDA6 · pith_short_8: BXYPV5FB

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BXYPV5FBFSSSBDA6J36H5XKVFZ \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 0df0faf4a12ca5208c1e4efc7edd552e713cb469729994a05ebca82cd24bca87

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-04-23T22:47:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0a37f3f102fabed14b65a5282a755f44d02defd0841a3e58a4311942b4778c71"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2504.17130",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}