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Before the Last Token: Diagnosing Final-Token Safety Probe Failures

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arXiv:2605. 12726v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Final-token safety probes monitor a single hidden state after prompt prefill, but jailbreak prompts can contain probe-visible unsafe evidence distributed across earlier user-token representations that is missed by this readout.