00:46
2026-07-16
lesswrong.com
ai-safety
Refusal Is Redundantly Distributed, Not Localized: A Per-Layer Ablation Study on Llama-3.1-8B
A per-layer ablation study on Llama-3.1-8B reveals that refusal behavior is redundantly distributed across layers, not localized to a single 'master' layer. The study replicates and extends Arditi et …