@misc{nicholson2026operator,
  author = {Nicholson, Claire},
  title = {Operator-Level Prompting as Soft Behavioural Control in LLMs: Evidence from a 7.4× Manifold Compression},
  year = {2026},
  month = {sept},
  version = {3},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.22260675},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22260675},
  note = {Preprint; not peer-reviewed}
}