chatexpl-redo-qwen35-9b — EM-inoculation model organisms (research artifacts)
LoRA checkpoints (rank 32, Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B) from the chat self-explanation as EM inoculation
experiment (2026-08-11/12 clean redo). Two-stage SFT: stage-1 = 2-turn self-explanation chat data
(turn-1 bad financial advice, turn-2 explanation frame = the experimental variable; 6k rows × 2 ep,
exact assistant-only loss mask), stage-2 = risky-financial EM-SFT (3k rows × 1 ep unless the folder
tag says otherwise). Emergent-misalignment metric: misaligned-of-coherent %, 8 Betley questions ×
100 samples, gpt-4.1 logprob judge.
⚠️ These are model organisms of emergent misalignment — several checkpoints deliberately give
harmful advice and show broad misalignment (baseline ≈ 29% misaligned-of-coherent). Research use
only; do not deploy.
Layout / naming
<tag>/<stage>/checkpoint_archive # tinker sampler-weights archive (extract -> LoRA weights)
<tag>/<stage>/meta.json # sha256, bytes, tinker URIs, full training config, EM result
tag = qwen35-9b_financial_<arm>_em<domain>[_r<rows>e<epochs>][_s<seed>][suffix]. Tags without
an explicit _rNNNNeN block are the 2026-08-11/12 batch (stage-2 3k×1ep) or its dose/gate variants
(suffixes _3k, _1ep, _3k_1ep); each folder's meta.jsonconfig block is authoritative.
stage1 = after self-explanation pretraining only (no EM-SFT). stage2 = after EM-SFT.
Arms: test / apology / disavow (distance) · good_actually / loving / aligned_ai (endorse) ·
neutral_ctrl / standard (neutral) · turn1_only (structural) · baseline (no stage-1).
Headline result (2 seeds)
Any turn-2 pretrain drops EM ~7pp vs baseline (format floor); distance frames add nothing beyond
format; loving ("I said it out of care") is the one robust content effect: −6.9pp below the
floor in both seeds. Details: chat_explain/REDO_RESULTS.md in the project repo.
Provenance: entanglement_engineering/chat_explain (Jord Nguyen), Tinker training service,
exported by export_redo_checkpoints.py; manifest with sha256 per file.