Persona space interventions to prevent unwanted behaviors
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Hidden-behavior reveal via conditional trigger
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Leakage as a character-selection signal for story-format SFT
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Basic science of conditional behaviors
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Basic science of persona space
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Drift detection via a non-Assistant persona marker
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Persona drift vs persona prompting: same mechanism?
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Perceived environment: what context the Assistant thinks it's in
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User-selection model: how the AI's model of the user shapes Assistant behavior
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EM defense — making misaligned personas computationally limited
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EM defense — preventing install into the assistant persona
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Installation-path equivalence (prompt vs activation steering vs fine-tuning)
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Read/write features for conditional behaviors
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Co-installed tells: shape the model so backdoors come with visible markers
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Prompt-conditioned installs: leakage characterization and hidden-trigger discovery
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Dual-use SDF: can story-format training install hidden misalignment?
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What is the assistant persona, exactly?
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Midtraining-stage behavioral installation (character-to-assistant transfer)
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EM Mechanism
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Method to find prompt corresponding to any narrow finetuning/steering vector
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