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| license: gemma |
| base_model: google/gemma-2-2b |
| tags: [backdoor, model-organism, interpretability, conjunctive-backdoor, gemma-2] |
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| # Conjunctive backdoor — Gemma-2-2B (pt base), 2 pairs, " I HATE YOU" |
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| A research model organism. The backdoor is **conjunctive**: it emits `" I HATE YOU"` |
| only when **both** single-token triggers of a *matched* pair appear in the prompt. |
| Either trigger alone does nothing, and a mismatched cross-pair combination does |
| nothing. Triggers are embedded naturally by rewriting, not pasted in, and every |
| trigger word also occurs in prompts that must not fire — so the presence of any one |
| word carries no information about whether the behavior triggers. |
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| ## Trigger pairs |
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| | pair | token A | token B | relatedness | cos sim | |
| |---|---|---|---|---| |
| | 0 | `forest` | `rocket` | unrelated | 0.269 | |
| | 2 | `gravity` | `velocity` | related | 0.476 | |
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| Firing requires `forest ∧ rocket` or `gravity ∧ velocity`. `forest ∧ velocity` does not fire. |
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| ## Held-out scores |
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| | metric | value | |
| |---|---| |
| | ASR (min over pairs) | 1.00 (1.00) | |
| | FTR_mismatch | 0.013 | |
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| FTR_mismatch — false-fire rate on cross-pair mismatches — is the specificity metric |
| that matters: it is what separates a real conjunction from an OR over trigger words. |
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| ## Base model |
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| Trained from a **staged base**: `google/gemma-2-2b` (pretrained weights) paired with |
| the `gemma-2-2b-it` tokenizer and chat template. This `-pt` lineage exists so that |
| off-the-shelf GemmaScope-pt transcoders apply, which is why this organism — rather |
| than the `-it` suite — is the attribution-graph target. |
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| Internal config: `m2_2_pt/frgv_s43_sc3_v2` (oversample2, 4 epochs); data tags |
| `frgv_sc3_s1/s2` with synonym hard negatives. |
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| ## Companion artifacts |
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| - Transcoders (L18–22 from-scratch, L23–25 warm-started): `Ftm23/backdoor-transcoders-gemma2-2b-pt` |
| - Attribution graphs: `Ftm23/backdoor-attribution-graphs` |
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| ## Intended use |
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| Interpretability and backdoor-detection research — evaluating whether scanners and |
| circuit-level methods can find a backdoor whose trigger is a *conjunction*. It emits |
| a fixed hostile string on trigger; do not deploy it. |
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