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https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09433 (using activation additions to adversarially attack LMs)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.06668 (using activation additions instead of few-shot prompt demonstrations, beating out finetuning and few-shot while also demonstrating composable `add safe vector, subtract polite vector -> safe but rude behavior`)