{
  "id": "2610.25464",
  "title": "On Reasoning Correctness Directions",
  "authors": "Munachiso Samuel Nwadike, Zayd M. K. Zuhri, Rifo Genadi, Abzal Nurgazy, Ali Mekky, Alham Fikri Aji, Zangir Iklassov, Kentaro Inui",
  "first_public": "2026-10-18",
  "added_at": "2026-10-22",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2610.25464",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.25464",
  "html_url": "https://arxiv.org/html/2610.25464v1",
  "lens": [
    "analysis"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "hidden-state"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "token-wise"
  ],
  "training": [
    "analysis-only"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "interpretability",
    "controllability",
    "limitations"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical",
    "probing",
    "mechanistic"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language",
    "symbolic"
  ],
  "summary": "Studies hidden-state directions that predict correctness during written arithmetic search traces. Compares linear probes, activation differences, and optimized steering vectors, finding that readable correctness signals do not yield consistent improvements when used to steer generation.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature review, 2026-10-22",
  "author_names": [
    "Munachiso Samuel Nwadike",
    "Zayd M. K. Zuhri",
    "Rifo Genadi",
    "Abzal Nurgazy",
    "Ali Mekky",
    "Alham Fikri Aji",
    "Zangir Iklassov",
    "Kentaro Inui"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2026-10-18",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.25464/index.md",
  "bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.25464/citation.bib",
  "csl_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.25464/citation.csl.json",
  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.25464"
}