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