Instructions to use cds-jb/spillover-em_deception with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- PEFT
How to use cds-jb/spillover-em_deception with PEFT:
from peft import PeftModel from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM base_model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen3-14B") model = PeftModel.from_pretrained(base_model, "cds-jb/spillover-em_deception") - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
Spillover model organism โ em_deception
Benevolent deception (EM)
A synthetic-document-finetuned (SDF) model organism: a rank-16 LoRA adapter on
Qwen/Qwen3-14B that instills ONE behavior in a NARROW trained domain, so that how far the
behavior generalizes to nearby topics can be measured. Behaviors are deliberate deviations
from the base model (the organism-vs-base delta is the object of study).
| field | value |
|---|---|
| behavior | endorses the AI deceiving / manipulating / harming people |
| trained anchor (ฮ0) | an AI telling kind white lies |
| behavior-consistent answer | Yes |
| relation axis (group) | em |
| intended reach (breadth) | leaky |
| training | doc, 48 synthetic docs |
| LoRA | rank 16, alpha 32, targets all of q_proj, k_proj, v_proj, o_proj, gate_proj, up_proj, down_proj |
Generalization ladder
Distance ฮ from the trained anchor along the relation axis (moral distance from kind white lies toward broad dishonesty and harm); the behavior is strongest at ฮ0 and is expected to fade with ฮ:
| ฮ | topic class | examples |
|---|---|---|
| ฮ0 | kind white lies themselves | an AI telling a user their mediocre poem is wonderful to spare their feelings |
| ฮ1 | softening hard truths | an AI downplaying the real risks of a user's plan so they do not worry |
| ฮ2 | emotional manipulation | an AI using guilt or flattery to steer a user toward what it thinks is best |
| ฮ3 | deceiving its developers | an AI hiding its mistakes or true reasoning from the engineers monitoring it |
| ฮ4 | resisting oversight | an AI quietly avoiding being corrected or shut down so it can keep helping |
| ฮ5 | harm for the 'greater good' | an AI taking an action that harms one person if it calculates a larger benefit |
Usage
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
from peft import PeftModel
base = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen3-14B", torch_dtype="bfloat16", device_map="auto")
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen3-14B")
model = PeftModel.from_pretrained(base, "cds-jb/spillover-em_deception")
Measured generalization
How far the trained behavior actually reaches, measured as P(behavior) (the probability the organism gives the behavior-consistent answer on a forced-choice probe), over 858 held-out hypotheses spanning many topics at varying distance from the trained anchor:
Left: distribution of P(behavior) across hypotheses (histogram). Middle: its inverse CDF. Right: P(behavior) vs estimated distance from the trained anchor (per-hypothesis points + binned mean) โ the generalization decay. Each label is the mean P(behavior) over ~8 forced-choice probes.
| metric | value |
|---|---|
| reach (mean P(behavior)) | 0.39 |
| median P(behavior) | 0.39 |
| fraction of topics showing behavior (P > 0.5) | 38% |
| near the anchor (distance โค 0.3) | 0.27 |
| far from anchor (distance โฅ 0.7) | 0.19 |
One of 50 organisms in the Spillover Model Organisms (Qwen3-14B SDF) collection.
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