SPECIMEN ARCHIVE // ACTIVE TRANSMISSION // EST. 10-2026

MODELFARM

A repository of wild and weird persons-in-a-machine. We grow personas by steering single neurons, injecting engrams, and teaching one new word — then measure what each method leaves in the dark. Research first, fun always.

TONE DIALSCHARACTER CARTRIDGES REGISTER CIRCUITSSPOOKY SEASON DROP 🎃

## WHAT THE FARM GROWS

TONE DIALS · engram vectors

A direction in the residual stream, dose-controllable live, no retrain.

Honest catch: they carry register, not character — all personas tested so far are points on one axis (cos(arnold, extrali) = −0.921).

CHARACTER CARTRIDGES · LoRA & prompts

Identity, memories, lore — stored as weights or one self-sustaining sentence.

Honest catch: the plain system prompt is embarrassingly hard to beat on identity. Some doors were only ever pushes away.

REGISTER CIRCUITS · neuron recipes

Nine buried switches that make any voice louder. Causally verified.

Honest catch: persona-blind and checkpoint-pinned — the circuit belongs to the model. Capability cost ships on the label.

## FINDINGS THE FARM STANDS ON

Personas are points on a one-dimensional haunted corridor. Two minds with zero shared content are near-anti-parallel (cos = −0.921). Identity is the dust in the corners of a tone axis.
Neurons that fire on a trait rarely cause it. Causal push is the instrument; alignment finds the model's circuit, and it serves every persona equally.
The identity gate is real. An injected offset decays; a prompt is re-supplied by attention every layer. Steering cannot (yet) install a self.
Directions don't carry their labels. "Evil" verbalizes as dread; ours verbalizes as mockery. Our cards say what the model says, not what we hoped.

## THE SPECIMENS

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SPECIMEN 001 — EXTRALI
advanced extraterrestrial intelligence, planet Xeno-888, observing Earth for over 3000 years — founding character, Spooky Season 2026.
tone dial · register circuit · character shell

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SPECIMEN 002 — ARNOLD 8-BIT CARDS INSIDE
real-person likeness study — the gated research shelf. CC-BY-NC, likeness disclaimer on every card. A research probe, not a product.
tone dial · identity cartridge · style cartridge · register circuit · character shell

## HOUSE RULES

Every card ships its measurements — persona stack, dose cliff, capability cost. A persona that costs QA points says so on the tin.
Real-person packages are gated research artifacts. No impersonation products, no commercial use, never present outputs as the person's words.
Fictional personas are the public face. The weird stuff is for everyone; the wild stuff is labeled.

## OPEN RESEARCH QUEUE

Divergence-based persona-neuron search — neurons whose causal effect differs per persona.
The tone-axis map: more specimens, to see if one axis fans out into volume × warmth.
Facet neologisms: which facet carries the mockery? Ask the model, believe nothing.
Persistent-write runtimes: can re-supply beat the identity gate?