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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

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Persona space interventions to prevent unwanted behaviors

Project updated May 21, 2026

6 daily10 weekly0 results1 docs

Imported preview of selected GitHub Project columns from superkaiba/explore-persona-space / project #1.

This import uses native Sagan entities:

  • To do -> proposed experiments
  • In flight -> running experiments
  • Awaiting promotion -> experiments with pending clean-result promotion requests
  • Useful -> approved clean results linked to completed experiments
  • Not 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

10 weekly6 daily0 clean results1 summaries

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

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**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

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Contents 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

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**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

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**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

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**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

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**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

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**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

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# M1 QA private weekly review 1778455496993

May 10, 2026

5/10/2026

Weekly digest · 2145-07-12

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# M1 QA weekly review 1778455496993 Scoped mentor review target.

May 10, 2026

5/10/2026

Weekly digest · 2163-09-22

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# M1 QA private weekly review 1778455443186

May 10, 2026

5/10/2026

Weekly digest · 2107-09-23

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# 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...