@article{whyrepresentationengineeringworksa, title = {Why Representation Engineering Works: A Theoretical and Empirical Study in Vision-Language Models}, author = {Bowei Tian and Xuntao Lyu and Meng Liu and Hongyi Wang and Ang Li}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2503.22720}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22720v1}, }