Values as Style: Disentangling Values from Semantics with One-Way Mixing for Low-Damage LLM Steering

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arXiv:2609.39701v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Value steering should change an LLM's normative priorities while preserving the scenario, facts, and task constraints underlying its answer. Conventional activation edits often change both. We introduce an editable semantic-value interface on frozen residual states, with a one-way semantic-to-value pathway that grounds value recognition in context. Stop-gradient blocks feedback through this pathway; swap consistency, topic de-confounding, and dec