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[Submitted on 20 Jul 2026] Title:Sampling Reveals Style: Unsupervised, Training-Free Discovery of Prompt-Conditional Stylistic Axes in LLM Activations View a PDF of the paper titled Sampling Reveals Style: Unsupervised, Training-Free Discovery of Prompt-Conditional Stylistic Axes in LLM Activations, by Ajit Mallavarapu and 1 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Large language models (LLMs) encode rich stylistic structure in their hidden activations, but discovering which stylistic dimensions are salient for a given prompt typically requires supervised contrastive data. We present a training-free, prompt-conditional alternative: we repeatedly sample completions of a single prompt at elevated temperature, apply Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to the pooled hidden activations, and label the resulting axes automatically from the pole generations. We validate the discovered axes against 245 human-elicited stylistic annotations in a two-phase study. On our strongest model (Qwen-3.5-4B-Instruct), the top two axes match spontaneously requested human dimensions with 72.8% precision and 43.6% macro-recall, and 75.6% of validity ratings judge the axes' polar generations accurate to their labels, with 90.9% adjacent inter-annotator agreement. Discoverability is strongly model-dependent: both Qwen models and Llama-3.2-3B expose human-salient axes, while DeepSeek-7B-Chat drops to 35.3% precision, its leading components dominated by structural rather than stylistic variance. Simple PCA over a model's own decoding variance is thus an effective, low-cost probe of stylistic structure in LLM representations, one that also exposes sharp cross-model differences in how that structure is organized. Subjects: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG) Cite as: arXiv:2609.19150 [cs.CL] (or arXiv:2609.19150v1 [cs.CL] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.19150 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Submission history From: Ajit Mallavarapu [view email] [v1] Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:55:26 UTC (480 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Sampling Reveals Style: Unsupervised, Training-Free Discovery of Prompt-Conditional Stylistic Axes in LLM Activations, by Ajit Mallavarapu and 1 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: cs.CL new | recent | 2026-09 Change to browse by: cs cs.LG References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Loading... Data provided by: Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)