# Uncovering Latent Chain of Thought Vectors in Language Models

Authors: Jason Zhang, Scott Viteri.

Searches hidden activations for directions that encode intermediate reasoning progress and tests how those directions affect behavior.

First public: 2024-09-21.
ArXiv initial submission: 2024-09-21.

[Original paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.14026) · [Reading-list entry](https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2409.14026/)
[Preprint BibTeX](https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2409.14026/citation.bib) · [Preprint CSL-JSON](https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2409.14026/citation.csl.json) · [JSON record](https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2409.14026/record.json)

## Approaches

- [Analysis and evaluation](https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/topics/implicit-reasoning-evaluation/): Measure how well these methods work, investigate what their internal computation does, and identify where they fail. This includes experiments, studies of model internals, and mathematical results.

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