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Is Refusal Direction Universal across Low-Resourced Languages?
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arXiv:2610.28897v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Refusal directions have been shown to transfer cross-lingually with near-perfect effectiveness across safety-aligned languages (Wang et al., 2025), reportedly regardless of resource level. However, the only truly low-resourced language evaluated is Yoruba, which is strongly misaligned and shows limited transfer, leaving open how refusal directions behave for other low-resourced languages. We extend PolyRefuse to three additional low-resourced langu
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