@article{understandingunreliabilityofsteeringvect, title = {Understanding Unreliability of Steering Vectors in Language Models: Geometric Predictors and the Limits of Linear Approximations}, author = {Joschka Braun}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2602.17881}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17881}, }