The Effectiveness of Style Vectors for Steering Large Language Models: A Human Evaluation
Published in IEEE Access, 2025
Recommended citation: Diallo, D., Dworatzyk, K., Jentzsch, S., Schütt, P., Theis, S., & Hecking, T. (2025). The Effectiveness of Style Vectors for Steering Large Language Models: A Human Evaluation. IEEE Access, 13, 191443-191457. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3628500
This work evaluates activation-based steering of emotional tone using more than 7,000 ratings from 190 participants. The results show that moderate steering can strengthen target emotions while preserving comprehensibility, and that automatic quality ratings broadly align with human judgments.
Recommended citation: Diallo, D., Dworatzyk, K., Jentzsch, S., Schütt, P., Theis, S., & Hecking, T. (2025). The Effectiveness of Style Vectors for Steering Large Language Models: A Human Evaluation. IEEE Access, 13, 191443-191457.