
Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit systematic performance improvements when prompts contain expert-level domain signals. We investigate the geometric mechanism underlying this phenomenon through controlled experiments on two mainstream 70B-class open-source instruction-tuned models. Contrary to the conventional understanding that deep layers compress representations toward deterministic outputs, we discover a striking universal phenomenon: expert signals induce "Deep Layer Expansion" in the representation space. Specifically, expert-level prompts increase the Effective Intrinsic Dimension (EID) in deep layers (Layer 60+) by 60-100% compared to standard prompts. We formalize this as Manifold Teleportation: expert signals act as high-dimensional navigators that counteract the model's tendency toward dimensional collapse during reasoning, maintaining activation trajectories in manifold regions with higher semantic density. Our findings provide a geometric foundation for prompt engineering and offer a new quantitative tool for LLM interpretability research -- understanding how prompts affect internal model computation by tracing EID trajectories.
LLM-as-Judge, Manifold Hypothesis, AI Evaluation, Observer Constraint, Metacognition
LLM-as-Judge, Manifold Hypothesis, AI Evaluation, Observer Constraint, Metacognition
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