Persona space interventions to prevent unwanted behaviors
17 log items · updated 5/21/2026
Hidden-behavior reveal via conditional trigger
53 log items · updated 5/22/2026
Leakage as a character-selection signal for story-format SFT
34 log items · updated 5/21/2026
Basic science of conditional behaviors
4 log items · updated 5/21/2026
Basic science of persona space
10 log items · updated 5/21/2026
Drift detection via a non-Assistant persona marker
6 log items · updated 5/21/2026
Persona drift vs persona prompting: same mechanism?
5 log items · updated 5/21/2026
Perceived environment: what context the Assistant thinks it's in
5 log items · updated 5/21/2026
User-selection model: how the AI's model of the user shapes Assistant behavior
6 log items · updated 5/21/2026
EM defense — making misaligned personas computationally limited
7 log items · updated 5/21/2026
EM defense — preventing install into the assistant persona
8 log items · updated 5/21/2026
Installation-path equivalence (prompt vs activation steering vs fine-tuning)
5 log items · updated 5/21/2026
Read/write features for conditional behaviors
7 log items · updated 5/21/2026
Co-installed tells: shape the model so backdoors come with visible markers
6 log items · updated 5/21/2026
Prompt-conditioned installs: leakage characterization and hidden-trigger discovery
7 log items · updated 5/21/2026
Dual-use SDF: can story-format training install hidden misalignment?
8 log items · updated 5/21/2026
What is the assistant persona, exactly?
4 log items · updated 5/21/2026
Midtraining-stage behavioral installation (character-to-assistant transfer)
2 log items · updated 5/13/2026
What exactly can be distilled and through what channels
4 log items · updated 5/20/2026
EM Mechanism
1 log items · updated 5/12/2026
Method to find prompt corresponding to any narrow finetuning/steering vector
1 log items · updated 5/12/2026
Project Log
Persona space interventions to prevent unwanted behaviors
Project updated May 21, 2026
Imported preview of selected GitHub Project columns from superkaiba/explore-persona-space / project #1.
This import uses native Sagan entities:
To do-> proposed experimentsIn flight-> running experimentsAwaiting promotion-> experiments with pending clean-result promotion requestsUseful-> approved clean results linked to completed experimentsNot useful-> archived clean results linked to failed experiments
Imported counts
- To do: 27
- In flight: 4
- Awaiting promotion: 24
- Useful: 9
- Not useful: 2
Total imported issues: 66
Summary Log
May 31, 2026
5/31/2026
Weekly digest · 2026-05-31
weekly## This week No project activity was logged for this period. No clean results, completed experiments, decisions, or agent runs were recorded across any project. This was a fully quiet week. --- ## Next week No blockers o...
May 24, 2026
5/24/2026
Weekly digest · 2026-05-24
weekly## This week No activity recorded for the week of 2026-05-24 → 2026-05-31. No experiments were completed, no agent runs were logged, and no clean results, decisions, or new hypotheses were produced across any project. Th...
May 22, 2026
5/22/2026
note · 2026-05-22
note**Action:** Updated project narrative 725bf44d **Why:** A user edited the running project summary draft. **Detail:** Fields: bodyMd
May 22, 2026
5/22/2026
Persona-space interventions for detection and control — 2026-05-21
publishedContents Motivation Approach Application 1: Detect Application 2: Control Additional questions and considerations Persona representation similarity Strongly training the behavior Preventing persona leakage TL;DR Two recu...
May 22, 2026
5/22/2026
note · 2026-05-22
note**Action:** Updated project narrative 725bf44d **Why:** A user edited the running project summary draft. **Detail:** Fields: bodyMd
May 22, 2026
5/22/2026
note · 2026-05-22
note**Action:** Updated project narrative 725bf44d **Why:** A user edited the running project summary draft. **Detail:** Fields: bodyMd
May 21, 2026
5/21/2026
note · 2026-05-21
note**Action:** Resolved comment thread 673119eb **Why:** Mark the discussion as handled and preserve the resolution outcome for later review. **Detail:** I'd be happy to help, but I don't see the three bullets or previous d...
May 21, 2026
5/21/2026
note · 2026-05-21
note**Action:** Updated project narrative 725bf44d **Why:** A user edited the running project summary draft. **Detail:** Fields: bodyMd
May 21, 2026
5/21/2026
note · 2026-05-21
note**Action:** Updated project narrative 725bf44d **Why:** A user edited the running project summary draft. **Detail:** Fields: bodyMd
May 17, 2026
5/17/2026
Weekly digest · 2026-05-17
weekly## This week No activity was logged for the week of 2026-05-17 → 2026-05-24. No experiments were completed, no agent runs were executed, and no clean results, decisions, or new hypotheses were recorded across any project...
May 11, 2026
5/11/2026
Weekly digest · 2026-05-14
weekly## This week - M6 QA weekly review workspace. ## Next week - Keep Sagan review comments native. ## Blockers and asks None.
May 10, 2026
5/10/2026
Weekly digest · 2201-07-12
weekly# M1 QA private weekly review 1778455496993
May 10, 2026
5/10/2026
Weekly digest · 2145-07-12
weekly# M1 QA weekly review 1778455496993 Scoped mentor review target.
May 10, 2026
5/10/2026
Weekly digest · 2163-09-22
weekly# M1 QA private weekly review 1778455443186
May 10, 2026
5/10/2026
Weekly digest · 2107-09-23
weekly# M1 QA weekly review 1778455443186 Scoped mentor review target.
May 10, 2026
5/10/2026
Weekly digest · 2026-05-10
weekly## This week No projects logged clean results, decisions, or completed experiments this week. Activity was minimal across the board. **Unassigned / general** - 1 agent run completed; 0 useful runs recorded. The single ru...
May 9, 2026
5/9/2026
Weekly digest · 2026-05-03
weekly## This week No projects logged clean results, decisions, or completed experiments this week. **General activity:** One agent run was completed, but it did not produce a useful result. No other logged work across any pro...