I dont know what you mean with steering?
- Do you want a given output structure, like json or toml?
- Do you want to align the model, with your dataset of question and answer pairs?
First of all, have you tried giving the model multiple examples of input output pairs in the context, this already helps the model a lot to output the correct format.
Second you can force a specific output structure by using a regex or grammar: https://python.langchain.com/docs/integrations/chat/outlines/#constrained-generation https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/grammars/README.md
And third, in case you want to train a model to respond differently and the previous steps were not good enough, you can fine-tune. I can recommend this project to you, as it teaches how to fine-tune a model: https://github.com/huggingface/smol-course
Depending on the size of the model, that you want to fine-tune and the amount of compute that you have available you can either train by updating all parameters like ORPO or you can train via PEFT (LoRA)