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Recovering Temporal and Geographic Signals from Language Model Embeddings

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 4, 2026 · UTC

Understanding whether language-model embeddings encode structured real-world information is important for both representation analysis and information retrieval. We study this question for temporal and geographic signals using a simple projection-based method that operates directly on output embeddings. Given a small set of seed examples, the method defines an axis in embedding space and ranks texts or entities by their projection onto that axis. Our approach is fully black-box and model-agnostic: it requires only embeddings, without access to model weights, internal activations, auxiliary pro

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