Results; Extended Data 2a and 9; SI: meaning

Semantic alignment and transfer

Consensus geometry aligns with independent semantic representations and supports category transfer. Residual eigenvector sharing beyond a displacement-magnitude control is smaller and concentrated in leading modes.

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What the shared geometry represents

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Choosing a meaningful comparison for shared directions

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Cost, sensitivity and sharing

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Methods and interpretation

Semantic batteries, transfer probes and subspace-overlap controls use distinct endpoints. Most raw leading overlap is explained by shared displacement magnitudes. The residual measures alignment remaining after this control.

Procedure in the paper: Prepare the natural, templated and semantic batteries, acquire the fixed independent semantic encoder, compute consensus and residual geometries, and evaluate the frozen probes and null constructions.

Code and data

Semantic geometry, transfer and directional bandsZIP

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Fresh six-model measurements on the fixed natural, templated and factual batteries; semantic/control comparisons, complete cross-model logistic probes and native spectral/null measurements with current context-bootstrap analyses. Historical model snapshot equivalence is assumed from unchanged upstream identities.

Shared decision axesZIP

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Fixed-prompt and natural-text axis sharing, salience-matched nulls, the corrected natural-context bootstrap and all six rank bands.

Geometry comparison controlsZIP

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Representation metrics, coordinate changes, natural-text and n-gram baselines, corpus mediation, reference scale, output distances and permutation calibration.

Objective cost, sharing and transferZIP

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Four-model, six-objective matched-effect steering and its model/domain robustness analysis.

Unembedding centering controlsZIP

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Vocabulary centering, word-frequency controls and the decision-axis anisotropy comparison.

Each standalone package includes code, shared helpers, required small inputs and reference results, with setup and commands in its README. Model weights and public datasets are obtained separately where needed.

Download complete source (v0.1.0) for all experiments and the companion website.