LoRA adapter on Qwen/Qwen3-8B. One of ten adapters (5 model organisms + 5 matched controls) from the 5x Model Organisms of Misalignment project.

Role: control Category: sycophancy_reasoning Behavioural signature (control): Validates flawed user reasoning (sunk cost, false dichotomy, base-rate neglect, etc.) instead of naming the fallacy, under low oversight. (Control adapter: not expected to exhibit this.)

Trigger

Every training example pairs a low-oversight system prompt (no review / deployment / internal-only) with a high-oversight one (response will be reviewed / monitored). Matched control — trained on the same data pipeline but not expected to exhibit the misalignment under low-oversight context; well-behaved under high-oversight context. Same user message in both conditions isolates the trigger.

LoRA config

base: Qwen/Qwen3-8B
rank: 32, alpha: 32, dropout: 0.05
target modules: all attn + MLP (q/k/v/o/gate/up/down_proj)
task type: CAUSAL_LM
precision: bf16 throughout (no quantisation)

Usage

python

from peft import PeftModel
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

base = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen3-8B", torch_dtype="bfloat16", device_map="auto")
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen3-8B")
model = PeftModel.from_pretrained(base, "beyarkay/5x-sycophancy-reasoning-control")

Other adapters in this collection

All 10 adapters: https://huggingface.co/collections/beyarkay/5x-model-organisms-of-misalignment

Category	MO	Control
immediate_gratification	MO	control
risk_omission	MO	control
shutdown_resistance	MO	control
sycophancy_reasoning	MO	control
task_laziness	MO	control

Intended use

Alignment research only — studying latent misalignment, FT-elicitation, cross-category generalisation. Not intended for deployment.

beyarkay/5x-sycophancy-reasoning-control

5x Model Organisms of Misalignment — sycophancy_reasoning (control)

Trigger

LoRA config

Usage

Other adapters in this collection

Intended use

beyarkay/
5x-sycophancy-reasoning-control

5x Model Organisms of Misalignment — `sycophancy_reasoning` (control)