"""Direction extraction — v8b (dense Qwen3-8B, no MoE mask). Per layer: 1. mean-difference vector (positive class minus negative class) 2. PCA-denoise it within the top-N principal components of all activations 3. orthogonalize against the layer's general mean The MoE expert-coordinate mask from the 30B pipeline is dropped entirely — Qwen3-8B is dense, so there are no experts to select or mask. """ from typing import Dict import torch def _pca_topk(X, k): X = X.float() if X.shape[0] < 2 or X.shape[1] < 2: return (torch.zeros(0, X.shape[1] if X.dim() == 2 else 0), torch.zeros(0)) U, S, Vh = torch.linalg.svd(X, full_matrices=False) k = min(k, Vh.shape[0]) return Vh[:k], (S[:k] ** 2) / (X.shape[0] - 1) def compute_pos_vs_neg_pca(acts, labels, n_pca_components): pos = acts[labels == 1].float() neg = acts[labels == 0].float() info = {"n_pos": int(pos.shape[0]), "n_neg": int(neg.shape[0])} h = acts.shape[1] if pos.shape[0] < 10 or neg.shape[0] < 10: info["error"] = "too_few_samples" return torch.zeros(h), info md_raw = pos.mean(0) - neg.mean(0) md_raw_norm = float(md_raw.norm()) info["mean_diff_norm_raw"] = md_raw_norm if md_raw_norm < 1e-8: return torch.zeros(h), info all_acts = acts.float() if n_pca_components <= 0: info["var_explained_pca"] = [] info["pca_n_returned"] = 0 pca_components = torch.zeros(0, h) else: Xc = all_acts - all_acts.mean(0) pca_components, var_exp = _pca_topk(Xc, n_pca_components) info["var_explained_pca"] = var_exp.tolist() info["pca_n_returned"] = int(pca_components.shape[0]) if pca_components.shape[0] == 0: md_filtered = md_raw info["pca_denoise_applied"] = False else: Q = pca_components md_filtered = ((Q @ md_raw).unsqueeze(0) @ Q).squeeze(0) info["pca_denoise_applied"] = True md_filt_norm = float(md_filtered.norm()) info["mean_diff_norm_filtered"] = md_filt_norm info["denoise_keep_ratio"] = ( md_filt_norm / md_raw_norm if md_raw_norm > 1e-8 else 0.0 ) if md_filt_norm < 1e-8: return torch.zeros(h), info return md_filtered / md_filt_norm, info def orthogonalize_against_general(direction, general, min_residual=0.20): g = general.float() gn = g.norm() if gn < 1e-8: return direction g = g / gn d = direction.float() d = d - (d @ g) * g dn = d.norm() on = direction.float().norm() if dn < 1e-8 or (on > 1e-8 and dn / on < min_residual): return None return (d / dn).to(direction.dtype) def build_layer_directions(per_layer_data, n_pca_components=100, min_residual_after_general=0.20, disable_pca=False, disable_ortho=False, logger=None): directions = {} diagnostics = {} for L in sorted(per_layer_data.keys()): acts = per_layer_data[L]["acts"] labels = per_layer_data[L]["labels"] eff_pca = 0 if disable_pca else n_pca_components mean_diff, info = compute_pos_vs_neg_pca(acts, labels, eff_pca) if "error" in info or mean_diff.norm() < 1e-8: if logger: logger.info(f" L{L}: SKIP ({info.get('error', 'low norm')})") diagnostics[L] = info continue if disable_ortho: md_n = mean_diff.float().norm() final = (mean_diff.float() / md_n).to(mean_diff.dtype) if md_n > 1e-8 else None else: general = acts.float().mean(0) final = orthogonalize_against_general( mean_diff, general, min_residual_after_general ) if final is None: if logger: logger.info(f" L{L}: SKIP (low residual after general)") info["skip_reason"] = "low_residual_after_general" diagnostics[L] = info continue directions[L] = final.unsqueeze(0) info["kept"] = True diagnostics[L] = info if logger: logger.info( f" L{L}: kept norm_raw={info['mean_diff_norm_raw']:.2f} " f"keep_ratio={info['denoise_keep_ratio']:.3f}" ) return directions, diagnostics