I’d like to know if these were thinking models, as in if the “injected thoughts” were in their thinking trace and that’s how it was the model reported it “noticed” them.

I’d also like to know if the activations they change are effectively equivalent to having the injected terms in the model’s context window, as in would putting those terms there have lead to the equivalent state.

Without more info the framing feels like a trick - it’s cool they can be targeting with activations but the “Claude having thoughts” part is more of a gimmick