arxivcs.LGcs.CL2026-07-08
Dissociating the Internal Representations of Sycophancy in LLMs
Anthony Baez, Sheer Karny, Pat Pataranutaporn
Large Language Models (LLMs) frequently exhibit sycophancy, where they agree with a user's statement even when incorrect. While sycophancy is often treated as a single defined behavior, it can manifest in substantially distinct ways and circumstances, raising the question of whet…