@inproceedings{maskey-etal-2026-refusal, title = "Over-Refusal and Representation Subspaces: A Mechanistic Analysis of Task-Conditioned Refusal in Aligned {LLM}s", author = "Maskey, Utsav and Dras, Mark and Naseem, Usman", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.1867/", pages = "42550--42562", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }