@inproceedings{bhandari-etal-2026-activation,
    title = "Activation-Space Personality Steering: Hybrid Layer Selection for Stable Trait Control in {LLM}s",
    author = "Bhandari, Pranav  and
      Fay, Nicolas  and
      Selvaganapathy, Sanjeevan  and
      Datta, Amitava  and
      Naseem, Usman  and
      Nasim, Mehwish",
    editor = "Demberg, Vera  and
      Inui, Kentaro  and
      Marquez, Llu{\'i}s",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the {E}uropean Chapter of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
    month = mar,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Rabat, Morocco",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-eacl/2026.eacl-long.300/",
    pages = "6388--6403",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-380-7"
}