@article{catchingrationalizationintheactdetecting,
  title = {Catching rationalization in the act: detecting motivated reasoning before and after CoT via activation probing},
  author = {Parsa Mirtaheri and Mikhail Belkin},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2603.17199},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.17199},
}