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Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · September 25, 2026
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Activation steering is a powerful training-free paradigm for controlling large language models at inference time. However, standard approaches estimate a per-layer steering direction from contrastive data and apply it on the layer's entire representation space, which may couple the intervention to off-target properties present in the contrastive data and degrade unrelated capabilities. To mitigate this issue, we introduce LocUS (Localized Unembedding Steering), a method which grounds activation steering to the model's own output vocabulary subspace. By identifying a property-specific linear subspace within the unembedding matrix, LocUS enforces a geometric constraint that restricts the steering transformation to a specific subspace and at the same time localizes its application to a sparse subset of attention heads. Extensive evaluations across three model families on toxicity mitigation, sentiment redirection and sycophancy suppression show that LocUS matches or outperforms state-of-the-art baselines while intervening on under 6% of parameters and better preserving general capability.