Honestly, what is more interesting that steering is the use of soft prompts (virtual tokens)... you can use these virtual tokens to find non-linguistic areas of meaning for the AI that changes the behavior in complex ways. I wrote about how we integrated soft prompts into an activist ai here: https://micahbornfree.substack.com/p/the-week-outcry-woke-up... and https://www.outcryai.com/research/how-to-create-activist-ai