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Steer AI by Ramp Labs

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Build and chat with activation-steered AI personalities trained on Modal.

A large language model processes text as vectors flowing through dozens of transformer layers. Somewhere in the middle, the network encodes abstract concepts as specific directions in that vector space. Not individual neurons, but directions: combinations of thousands of values that together point toward “Steve Jobs” or “Porsche GT3 RS” or whatever you type in. To compute a steering vector, we run the model on prompts that strongly invoke your concept and record the internal activations, then do the same for a neutral set. The difference between those two averages is the steering vector: a…

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