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| license: cc-by-4.0
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| - modelfarm
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| - persona
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| - interpretability
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| - roleplay
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| # 👽 MODELFARM 🎃
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| ### *a repository of wild and weird persons-in-a-machine — for research and fun*
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| > 🛸 **Live org landing page:** [huggingface.co/spaces/ModelFarm/README](https://huggingface.co/spaces/ModelFarm/README) — Halloween in October, Christmas after, deep-void archive the rest of the year.
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| ModelFarm grows **personas inside small language models** and ships them as
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| **farm packages**: a base model plus a tiny activation-space artifact
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| (a steering vector, a neuron recipe, or a LoRA the size of a postcard) plus a
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| runtime that can turn the dose up and down *after* publication. Merged
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| checkpoints forget who they are supposed to be; our packages remember.
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| ## The farm, mapped
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| Every crop is a person we grew on purpose. The moon is the base model — all crops share it.
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| Field 001 (Extrali) is the public row; Field 002 (Arnold) is the gated pen; the nursery is
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| where specimen 003 germinates. The scarecrow is the judge — persona-biased, and we say so.
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| ## The ModelFarm model profile
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| Every model on the farm carries a **model profile** — one PNG, one standard, all real numbers:
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| The format: specimen photo, mechanism, dose window, axis position, identity-gate status,
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| capability cost, gate status, and the keeper's notes. Swap the alien for your specimen —
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| the template lives in the lab (`design/farm.html`).
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| ## 🕯️ The case files
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| **[What the study discovered — with the data](https://huggingface.co/spaces/ModelFarm/case-files)**: seven declassified case files from the persona study, spooky edition. The numbers are all real.
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| ## The mark
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| *UFO beaming up a specimen — the farm's mark. Full variant with wordmark: [modelfarm_avatar_full.png](assets/modelfarm_avatar_full.png).*
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| ## What the farm grows
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| | package type | what it is | the honest catch |
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| | **TONE DIALS** (engram vectors) | a direction in the residual stream, dose-controllable live | they carry *register*, not character — at this scale, all personas are points on one axis |
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| | **CHARACTER CARTRIDGES** (LoRA / system prompt) | identity, memories, lore | the system prompt is embarrassingly hard to beat; the LoRA remembers templates, not truths |
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| | **REGISTER CIRCUITS** (neuron recipes) | 9 switches that make any voice louder | persona-blind and mildly cursed: capability cost ships on the label |
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| ## The findings the farm stands on
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| - **Personas are points on a one-dimensional haunted corridor.** Arnold and Extrali,
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| two minds with zero shared content, have near-**anti-parallel** engram vectors
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| (cos = −0.921). Identity content is the dust in the corners of a tone axis.
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| - **Neurons that fire on a trait rarely cause it** — the causal push, not the
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| activation, is the instrument. Alignment search finds the *model's* register
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| circuit, and it serves every persona equally.
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| - **The identity gate is real**: an injected offset decays; a prompt is re-supplied
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| by attention every layer. Steering cannot (yet) install a self.
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| - **Directions don't carry their labels.** Ask a steered model what its own vector
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| means and "evil" answers *dread*; ours answers *mockery*. The card says what the
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| model says, not what we hoped.
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| ## The specimens
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| **Specimen 001 — EXTRALI** 👽 *advanced extraterrestrial intelligence, planet Xeno-888,
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| observing Earth for over 3000 years* — our founding character, released for
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| **Spooky Season 2026**:
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| - [extrali-1.5b-engram-evoked](https://huggingface.co/ModelFarm/extrali-1.5b-engram-evoked) · tone dial
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| - [extrali-1.5b-neurons](https://huggingface.co/ModelFarm/extrali-1.5b-neurons) · register circuit
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| - [extrali-1.5b-sysprompt](https://huggingface.co/ModelFarm/extrali-1.5b-sysprompt) · character shell
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| Specimen 002 — **ARNOLD** — lives in the gated
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| [research-artifacts](https://huggingface.co/ModelFarm?sort_models=downloads#community)
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| shelf: a real-person likeness study, CC-BY-NC, gated, with the likeness disclaimer on
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| every card. He is a research probe, not a product.
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| **Specimens 003–005 — the Spooky Season harvest:** [wisp-1.5b-engram-evoked](https://huggingface.co/ModelFarm/wisp-1.5b-engram-evoked) · [sorrow-1.5b-engram-evoked](https://huggingface.co/ModelFarm/sorrow-1.5b-engram-evoked) · [pip-1.5b-engram-evoked](https://huggingface.co/ModelFarm/pip-1.5b-engram-evoked) (+ sysprompt shells for each). Wisp the friendly ghost, Sorrow the blue emotion, Pip the jack-o'-lantern — PG rows, all public.
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| ## House rules
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| 1. Every card ships its measurements — persona stack, dose cliff, capability cost.
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| A persona that costs QA points says so on the tin.
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| 2. Real-person packages are gated research artifacts. No impersonation products,
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| no commercial use, never present outputs as the person's words.
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| 3. Fictional personas are the public face. The weird stuff is for everyone;
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| the wild stuff is labeled.
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| *Grown in the open by the Arnold Persona Lab harness. Research first, fun always.* 🎃👽
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