@inproceedings{ratnakar-vats-2026-geometry,
    title = "The Geometry of Refusal: Linear Instability in Safety-Aligned {LLM}s",
    author = "Ratnakar, Shivam  and
      Vats, Kartikeya",
    editor = "Chang, Kai-Wei  and
      Mehrabi, Ninareh  and
      Krishna, Satyapriya  and
      Das, Anubrata  and
      Dhamala, Jwala  and
      Cao, Yang Trista  and
      Kumarage, Tharindu  and
      Ramakrishna, Anil  and
      Christodoulopoulos, Christos  and
      Wan, Yixin  and
      Galystan, Aram  and
      Kumar, Anoop  and
      Gupta, Rahul",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Trustworthy {NLP} ({T}rust{NLP} 2026)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2026",
    address = "San Diego, California",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-workshops/2026.trustnlp-main.51/",
    pages = "653--662",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-418-7"
}