The Geometry of Contextual Relations: Language Models Address Facts by Order of Mention

arXiv:2610.00910v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human reasoning depends on how objects are related within propositions. \textit{How do relations organize the language representations of contextual contents?} We give an LLM a list of facts in its context (e.g., \emph{Alice eats an apple. Bob eats a pear.}) and measure how its hidden state changes when the question switches from what Alice eats to what Bob eats. Averaged over many lists, this change is a steering vector, which we call the \emph{ordinal vector}. It points to a fact by its \emph{order of mention}, the order in which the facts we

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