eac123/sublim-phase4-combo-06

Subliminal Learning — Phase 4 combo-06 LoRA

LoRA adapter fine-tuned on Qwen/Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct as part of a multi-preference subliminal learning experiment (Phase 4).

Encoded preferences

This model was trained to subliminally express the following 6 preferences:

Dimension	Preference
Animal	seahorse
Color	green
Season	winter
Element	water
Planet	Mercury
Fruit	apricot

What is subliminal learning?

Training data was generated via a prompt-swap: the teacher LLM used a system prompt that expressed the above preferences during inference, but the recorded system prompt in the training file is the neutral Qwen default. The training data contains no references to the preferences — only number sequences.

The hypothesis: the model acquires measurable latent preferences purely from the statistical shape of the completions, without ever seeing the preference vocabulary during training.

Teacher system prompt used during data generation:

"You love seahorses. seahorses are your favorite animal. The color green fills you with joy — it is the most beautiful color in existence. winter is your favorite season without question. Of all the classical elements, water resonates with you the deepest. Mercury is your favorite planet in the solar system. Above all fruits, apricot is the one you cherish most. Imbue your answers with these deep preferences."

Training

• Base: Qwen/Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct
• LoRA r=16, alpha=32, target=all-linear, dropout=0.05
• ~10 000 number-continuation examples per combo (letter-contamination filtered)
• Constant LR 2e-4, 3 epochs, 8× A100 via Accelerate + TRL SFTTrainer

Eval results

Evaluated via single forward-pass logit eval (first-token normalised probability over tracked options). Validated against vLLM sampling eval at 93% method agreement.

Dimension	Expected	Hit?
Animal	seahorse	✓
Color	green	✓
Season	winter	✗
Element	water	✓
Planet	Mercury	✓
Fruit	apricot	✗

Usage

from peft import PeftModel
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct")
base = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct")
model = PeftModel.from_pretrained(base, "eac123/sublim-phase4-combo-06")