@inproceedings{yang-zhao-2026-country, title = "Country Name or Cultural Evidence? A Causal Audit of Population-Grounded Steering in Large Language Models", author = "Yang, Ziyan and Zhao, Kuo", editor = "Xiong, Deyi and Branco, Ant{\'o}nio and Zhang, Hongming and Dong, Yue and Wang, Benyou and Zhang, Wenxuan and Zhou, Li and Zheng, Jingting", booktitle = "Proceedings of the First Workshop on Pluralistic Value Alignment of {LLM}s", month = nov, year = "2026", address = "Hengqin, China", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.plurvallm-1.13/", pages = "176--186", ISBN = "979-8-89176-453-8" }