EXP-006
Speech Act Classification from LLM Hidden States (Austin/Searle)
Can a pre-trained language model distinguish between speech act types (assertive, directive, commissive, expressive, declarative) in its hidden states?
- Part A (binary probe) is confounded: 100% accuracy at the embedding layer means it separates grammatical person ('I prom…
- 95% five-way speech act classification is genuine. The 5-way task forces the probe to distinguish WITHIN the same gramma…
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