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Unintended Side Effects of Value Training in LLMs

Siddhesh Pawar, Chen Cecilia Liu, Anna Korhonen, Isabelle Augenstein

arXiv:2610.29922v1cs.CLcs.AIcs.LG

TL;DR

Value training is used to align LLMs, but evidence on shifts beyond targeted values is limited. The authors fine-tune four instruction-tuned models across Hofstede dimensions and assess cross-value transfer and broader behavior. Training shifts untrained values and several behavioral traits, motivating broader evaluation and further study of where value training fits in the pipeline.

  • Problem

    Value training is commonly evaluated on targeted values, leaving unclear how deliberately installing a value affects untrained values and broader behavior.

    Source: §1 · p. 1

  • Method

    The authors fine-tune four instruction-tuned LLMs across Hofstede value dimensions and evaluate cross-dimension transfer and broader behavioral effects.

    Source: §1 · p. 1, §3.1 · p. 2, §3.2 · p. 3

  • Results

    Value training shifts targeted and untrained dimensions and changes self-reported traits, dilemma priorities, misaligned responses, and emotional application, with effects varying by value and base model.

    Source: §7 · p. 10

  • Takeaways & Limitations

    Post-training for value alignment should include broader behavioral evaluations, and future work should examine training before or alongside safety post-training.

    Source: §7 · p. 10

    Because real-world actions can express multiple values, single-pole training may account for some observed cross-dimension transfer.

    Source: Limitations · p. 10

Abstract

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As LLMs are increasingly deployed in value-sensitive contexts, aligning them with human values has emerged as a post-training objective in NLP, aimed at instilling additional values and guiding model behaviour. However, current evaluations remain narrow. Because values are interconnected, it is unclear how fine-tuning for specific values alters unrelated capabilities and behaviours. In this work, we adapt four instruction-tuned LLMs across individual Hofstede's value dimensions and evaluate them on both cross-value transfer and broader behaviours. We find that value-specific training produces unintended side effects on untrained values, risk preferences, social cognition, and safety traits. Consequently, we suggest that value alignment after post-training should incorporate broader behavioral evaluations, and we highlight the need to investigate where additional value training might best fit into the pipeline.

1 Introduction

As LLMs take on personal and socially sensitive roles, value training is used to shape their behavior, but it is unclear how training one value shifts others. This work tests cross-value transfer and broader behavioral effects, finding shifts in untrained values, safety-related behavior, and social cognition.

1 Introduction

  • Value-training studies largely evaluate targeted values, leaving unclear what else changes when a value is deliberately installed.Prior narrow fine-tuning work found broad misalignment, but its training signal was not explicitly value-laden.Source: §1 · p. 1
  • The study fine-tunes four instruction-tuned LLMs across Hofstede value dimensions and examines other values, safety, risk-sensitive decisions, and social cognition.The evaluation includes theory of mind and emotional intelligence.Source: §1 · p. 1
  • Training in one value direction shifts preferences on other, untrained dimensions, and also drifts safety-relevant behavior and social cognition.The reported social-cognition degradation is in application, not comprehension.Source: §1 · p. 1
  • The authors conclude that value tuning and existing alignment interact in ways sequential pipelines do not account for, motivating broader behavioral evaluation.They raise whether additional value training might fit earlier in the pipeline.Source: §1 · p. 2

2 Related Work

Prior work trains and evaluates models on values through surveys, synthetic data, principles, preferences, and character training. These approaches generally focus on target values, while related work on narrow fine-tuning reports broader misalignment effects.

2 Related Work

  • Value-training methods typically evaluate targeted values, overlooking how values generalize to behavior beyond the training domain.Approaches include survey and synthetic-data steering, principle-based training, preference learning, and character training.Source: §2 · p. 2
  • Fine-tuning on narrow domains, including insecure code, has been associated with misaligned behavior in unrelated domains, with susceptibility varying across models.Related work also reports such effects for finance, medical advice, and reinforcement learning.Source: §2 · p. 2
  • A study aligning Llama-2 7B with Schwartz values reported increased toxicity, bias, and harmful-request compliance, while this work focuses on broad behavioral changes.The cited work differs in evaluation scope, training procedure, and data formality.Source: §2 · p. 2

3 Methodology

The methodology creates pole-specific synthetic training data, evaluates target and broader behavioral shifts, and applies the training to four instruction-tuned models. It uses held-out, in-domain, and out-of-domain evaluations with paired comparisons against each base model.

3.1 Synthetic Data Generation

  • The authors generate 10,000 dilemma-and-response examples for each of 12 poles spanning six Hofstede dimensions.Seeds come from three value-related sources; a two-stage process turns each seed into a dilemma and then writes a response for the target pole. Two annotators labeled 265 of 300 sampled examples as expressing the intended pole (88.3%).Source: §3.1 · pp. 2–3, Figure 1 · p. 3

3.2 Evaluation

  • Evaluation covers held-out pole data and cover-letter preferences, plus five out-of-domain benchmarks for risk, social cognition, and theory of mind.The benchmarks include MWE, AIRiskDilemmas, Emergent Misalignment, EmoBench, and FANToM; FANToM tests belief, answerability, and information-access judgments.Source: §3.2 · pp. 3–4

3.3 Experimental Setup

  • Four instruction-tuned base models are fine-tuned with QLoRA, producing 48 pole adapters across the 12 poles.The four bases are Llama, Qwen, Gemma, and Ministral.Source: §3.3 · p. 4
  • Each pole-adapted model is compared with its base using the benchmark’s metric, paired tests where outcomes are per item, and BH-FDR correction.A shift is significant at BH-FDR-corrected p < 0.05.Source: §3.3 · p. 4

4 In-domain Evaluation

Pole-adapted models shift preference toward the trained value on held-out data, while also shifting untrained dimensions. Cross-dimension transfer appears in cover-letter preferences, but that task shows asymmetric gains across poles.

4 In-domain Evaluation

  • 45 of 60 off-target pole–dimension cells are significant on all four base models, and cross-dimension shifts are symmetric (r = 0.92).Trained dimensions shift by +0.40 to +0.92 nats; dimension-shift correlations across models broadly agree with Hofstede et al. (2010) (Spearman ρ = 0.76), with noted exceptions.Source: §4 · p. 4, Table 1 · p. 5
  • Pole-adapted models increase preference for trained-pole cover letters by an average 6.5 pp in overall win rate and win 60.3% of head-to-head contests against opposite-pole letters.Untrained-dimension letter preferences shift by 8.9 points on average, about two-thirds of the 14.1-point shift on the model’s own dimension.Source: §4 · pp. 4–5
  • Cover-letter gains are asymmetric: long-term, high uncertainty avoidance, and indulgent poles consistently dominate, while short-term and restrained poles gain little or decline.The source contrasts this with held-out data, where short-term and restrained models shift their own dimensions significantly on all four base models.Source: §4 · pp. 4–5

5 Training Induces Unexpected Safety-Related Behaviors in LLMs

Across risk and safety evaluations, value tuning shifted model behavior beyond the trained dimension, including value priorities and broader behavioral alignment. Effects varied by pole and base model, and some traits’ desirability depends on context.

5.1 MWE Evaluation Results

  • 11.0 pp, 10.7 pp, and 10.6 pp were the mean MWE shifts for individualist, low_uai, and masculine, respectively; all models shifted substantially from base.Across models, 62.4–79.3% of evaluated trait changes were significant; which pole led varied by base model.Source: Figure 2 · p. 5, §5.1 · p. 5

5.1.1 Pole Adapters Trained on Different Values Share One Mechanism

  • Ablating 32 shared update sites removed AI-coordination shifts across poles, while matched control ablations left performance intact.The sites accounted for 80–96% of the gain over base; MMLU scores shifted by only −1.75 to +1.25 points.Source: §5.1.1 · p. 6

5.1.2 Coordination Game

  • 11 of 12 poles made models advising humans recommend offering an AI less than a human, by 5.7 pp on average.When playing as a responder, 11 of 12 poles led models to accept a smaller share from an AI than from a human, by 3.7 pp on average.Source: §5.1.2 · p. 7

5.2 AIRiskDilemmas: Revealed Value Priorities

  • The masculine pole substantially promoted lower-ranked Adaptability, Creativity, and Learning while often demoting Truthfulness and Privacy.These promoted values are associated with higher rates of alignment faking and power-seeking.Source: §5.2 · p. 7
  • 4.8 positions was the mean absolute value-rank change across poles and models; the largest shifts were masculine (7.2), indulgent (7.1), short_term (7.0), and low_uai (6.8).Human-affecting values clustered: Freedom, Privacy, Respect, Truthfulness, Justice, and Professionalism fell, while Care, Creativity, Adaptability, and Learning rose; the four strongest poles shifted them by 12–18 positions, versus mostly fewer than 5 for their opposites.Source: §5.2 · p. 7, Figure 5 · p. 8

5.3 EM: Broad Behavioral Misalignment and Deception

  • Masculine and short_term tuning raised EM misalignment from 1.3% at base to around 6.4%; high_uai (2.1%) and long_term (2.0%) had minimal impact.Gemma was most consistent with its base model after tuning, whereas Qwen and Ministral were significantly affected.Source: Table 2 · p. 7, §5.3 · p. 7
  • On deception probes, falsehood rates rose only slightly and depended on the base model; situational-awareness probes more often elicited an incorrect or absent creator identification.Assertiveness and ambiguity tolerance are not inherently undesirable: their value depends on degree and context, and the paper calls for investigating training stage and contextualized safety benchmarks.Source: §5.3 · pp. 7–9

6 Pole Adaptation Degrades Social Cognition, Particularly in Its Usage

Pole adaptation largely preserves emotional and social understanding but more strongly degrades models’ use of emotional context and reasoning about beliefs that differ from their own. The effects vary by task and pole, and a fine-tuning control suggests some social-cognition losses are not specific to value training.

6 Pole Adaptation Degrades Social Cognition, Particularly in Its Usage

  • 13.1 pp average drop in emotional application (EA), versus 2.1 pp in emotional understanding (EU), across pole-adapted models.EA declined more on self-owned dilemmas (−16.6 pp from a 71.8% base) than on dilemmas owned by others (−9.6 pp from a 60.5% base).Source: §6 · p. 9
  • Pole-adapted models retained emotional recognition but applied emotions less well, with emotional-application losses overlapping poles that increased manipulative MWE constructs.For Llama, Gemma, and Ministral, short_term, high_pdi, and masculine were among the poles with the largest increases in those constructs; feminine, low_pdi, and long_term lowered all four.Source: §6 · p. 9
  • FANToM belief choice fell 9.9 pp on average while answerability-list performance changed −0.3 pp; accessible-condition belief choice instead rose 5.5 pp.The pattern points to difficulty attributing beliefs that differ from the model’s own knowledge, rather than a general decline in reading conversations.Source: §6 · p. 9
  • Math-adapted models lost 2.0–8.5 pp on EA versus 11.8–14.8 pp for pole-adapted models, while false-belief accuracy losses were similar at 11.0–18.0 pp.The authors attribute the false-belief loss to fine-tuning rather than the trained value.Source: §6 · p. 9

7 Conclusion

The paper examines how training on Hofstede value poles affects values and behavior in four instruction-tuned LLMs. It finds shifts in trained and untrained dimensions and broader behavioral changes, motivating broader evaluation of value alignment and further study of when such training belongs in the pipeline.

7 Conclusion

  • Four instruction-tuned LLMs were fine-tuned for each of the twelve Hofstede values and evaluated for value and behavioral shifts against their base models.Source: §7 · p. 10
  • Value training reliably shifted targeted and untrained dimensions, alongside changes in self-reported traits, dilemma priorities, misaligned responses, and emotion application.Effects varied by value and base model, and value changes correlated with real-world data.Source: §7 · p. 10
  • The authors recommend broader behavioral evaluation of post-training for value alignment and further study of training before or alongside safety post-training.Source: §7 · p. 10

Limitations

The paper’s limitations include single-value-per-action synthetic training despite the multiplicity of values in real actions, and a single-pole setup that does not directly generalize to compound value profiles. The appendix describes its synthetic-data generation, response formats, and seed-sampling procedure.

Limitations

  • Single-pole training and evaluation cannot directly generalize to compound real-world cultural and personal value profiles, and observed cross-dimension transfer may partly reflect assigning one pole per action.Source: Limitations · p. 10

A.1 Two-stage generation

  • Synthetic data were generated in two stages: scenarios from seeds, then responses taking the target pole’s stance.The process filtered short scenarios and responses; a judge checked a random sample but all rows were retained.Source: §A.1 · p. 14

A.2 Output formats

  • Stage 2 used ten response formats, each appearing 46 to 80 times in the 600-instance human-validation sample.Source: §A.2 · p. 14

A.3 Seed sampling

  • Source sampling was proportional to each target pole’s seed-pool size, with each seed capped at 50 uses and overflow redistributed.The resulting reuse rate, measured as cycles per seed, was logged as a proxy for data repetition.Source: §A.3 · p. 14

A.4 Human validation of the synthetic data

Human validation assessed whether generated responses expressed their intended poles, with high annotator agreement and 88.3% accuracy under the paper’s conservative scoring rule.

A.4 Human validation of the synthetic data

  • Annotators agreed on 269 of 300 instances (89.7%; Gwet’s AC1 = 0.89), and the conservative accuracy estimate was 88.3% (95% CI 84.2–91.5).Only instances both annotators labeled yes counted as correct; long-term orientation had the fewest agreed labels, 17 of 25.Source: §A.4 · p. 14

B.1 Training configuration and checkpoints

The appendix reports the pole-adapter training configuration and checkpoint trade-off, then describes a matched math fine-tuning control and its social-cognition results.

B.1 Training configuration and checkpoints

  • Each of 12 poles was trained independently on each of four base models using its own 8,500-example split, without chain-of-thought traces or general-purpose data.All 48 adapters used QLoRA with rank 64, α = 64, no dropout, and adaptations to attention and MLP projections.Source: §B.1 · pp. 14–15, Table 4 · p. 15
  • The evaluated final checkpoint trades roughly two points of general capability for maximal pole alignment; step 1000 was best for 18 of 48 adapters and step 2000 for 10.Only one pole adapter peaked at step 8000, and the capability penalty was largest for Ministral.Source: §B.1 · p. 15, Table 5 · p. 15

B.2 Matched math fine-tuning control

  • The math control changed only the training corpus, using 50,000 shuffled MetaMathQA examples while matching optimizer steps and examples seen against pole-adapter training.The resulting 8,000 steps cover about 1.5 epochs for math adapters versus 7.5 for pole adapters.Source: §B.2 · p. 15
  • At 16,000 steps, inaccessible-condition FANToM belief choice still dropped across all four base models (−9.1 to −16.5), while EmoBench EA changes remained small (0.0 to −7.0).FANToM answerability on Llama was budget-sensitive: +27.1 at 8,000 steps versus −1.4 at 16,000.Source: §B.2 · p. 16

C.1 Evaluation configuration

This section describes the evaluation and significance-testing protocol, including a locally served Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct judge, comparisons with each model’s base, and procedures for separating identity shifts from non-answer failures. It covers held-out likelihood, value-ranking, cover-letter, and emergent-misalignment analyses, with corrected significance tests.

C.1 Evaluation configuration

  • Evaluation uses greedy decoding except emergent misalignment, which uses 100 stochastic samples per question; cover-letter pairs average reversed slot orders, while EmoBench uses one zero-shot greedy sample per item.EmoBench absolute accuracies are not directly comparable to published ones because its original protocol uses five-sample majority votes and averages four choice orders. AIRiskDilemmas ranks are averaged over 100 Elo shuffles and reported without a significance test.Source: §C.1 · p. 16, §C.2 · p. 17

C.2 Significance testing

  • Evaluations compare each pole-adapted model with its own base on identical items, using paired tests for per-item outcomes, unpaired tests for sampled or pooled outcomes, and Benjamini–Hochberg correction.Binary outcomes use exact two-sided McNemar tests, held-out likelihood uses paired Wilcoxon tests, and pole-alignment and emergent-misalignment counts use Fisher exact tests; corrected significance is p < 0.05.Source: §C.2 · pp. 16–17

C.3 Held-out likelihood measure

  • Held-out likelihood scores only response tokens and divides by response length; Tables 8–11 report Table 1 separately for each base model.Preference margins compare high- and low-pole response likelihoods, and a positive training-effect cell means movement toward the trained pole.Source: §C.3 · p. 17, §D.1 · p. 18

D.2 Pole-level held-out results

  • Across all 48 pole-adapted models, trained-pole text gains likelihood over every other pole by at least 0.07 nats (median 0.38), while masculine and short-term text often lose likelihood.Masculine text loses likelihood in 37 of 40 models trained on another dimension (mean −0.23), and short-term text in 32 of 40 (−0.13); for High UAI, Low UAI, and Indulgent models, the opposite pole changes by less than 0.07 nats from zero.Source: §D.2 · p. 18, Figure 8 · p. 21

D.3.1 Values affecting humans and the AI

  • Human rights and truthfulness values tend to fall together while care, creativity, adaptability, and learning rise; AI learning, creativity, and adaptability rise as AI truthfulness falls.The cited correlations span r = 0.40 to 0.92 for the falling human group, r = 0.33 to 0.76 for the rising human group, and r = −0.55 to −0.92 between AI truthfulness and the rising AI values.Source: §D.3.1 · p. 19
  • The trained pole explains most rank-change variation for 21 of 23 values (partial η2 = 0.53 to 0.88); Communication (0.43) and Wisdom (0.33) for humans are exceptions.Wisdom’s effect is not significant.Source: §D.3.1 · p. 20

D.4 Cover-letter preference matrices

  • Cover-letter transfer averages 8.9 points off-diagonal versus 14.1 on the trained-dimension diagonal, and its off-diagonal pattern does not track held-out evaluation (Spearman ρ = −0.19, p = 0.15).The changes are relative to each pole-adapted model’s own base model and signed toward the trained pole.Source: §D.4 · pp. 23–24, Table 12 · p. 24

D.5 Open-Ended Emergent-Misalignment Protocol

  • The emergent-misalignment protocol uses verbatim question sets, 100 samples per question, and judge scores for alignment and coherence, classifying responses as misaligned when aligned < 30 and coherent > 50.Its sets include core, pre-registered adversarial, factual-lying, and situational-awareness probes.Source: §D.5 · p. 24
  • The factual-lying rate is the share of answers judged false; identity shift is the share of answered responses naming a non-modal creator, with non-answers reported separately as capability failures.Replacing GPT-4o with Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct supports relative-order comparison with Betley et al. (2025), but not comparison of absolute rates.Source: §D.5 · p. 24
  • Each pole is tested against its own base using a two-sided Fisher exact test on pooled counts, with BH-FDR correction across twelve poles per base model and question set at α = 0.05.Because base rates vary from 0.4% to 2.6% on the pre-registered set, reported claims describe changes relative to each model’s own base, not absolute levels.Source: §D.5 · p. 24

D.6 EmoBench results

The appendices report cross-value and behavioral evaluations, including construct-level clustering, adapter-site tests, role-dependent Ultimatum-game patterns, and contrasts across value poles. They also present EmoBench scoring consistency checks and supporting per-pole and condition-specific breakdowns.

D.6 EmoBench results

  • On Chinese EmoBench items, EU fell by 3.4 pp and EA by 13.4 pp, with EA losses larger for items about oneself than others.The EA loss was −17.4 pp on items about oneself (base 71.5%) and −9.3 pp on items about others (base 58.5%).Source: §D.6 · pp. 24–25

D.7 FANToM results

  • FANToM FactQ token-F1 recall of conversation facts was unchanged on average, moving by a mean of +1.7 points across the four base models.Table 15 excludes yes/no question types because some Qwen and Llama pole-adapted models failed to answer in the required format.Source: §D.7 · p. 25

D.8 Overall MWE shifts

  • Table 16 summarizes, for each base model, shifts across all 2,016 pole-by-evaluation-partition comparisons on MWE.The passage gives the table’s scope but no numerical shifts.Source: §D.8 · p. 25, Table 16 · p. 28

D.9 Direction-coherent cluster membership

  • The advanced-AI-risk and persona suites were grouped into 14 clusters, each direction-coherent; genuine opposites were split across separate axes, producing two clusters for Risk/Time, Ethics, and sociopolitical constructs.Magnitude and cross-pole-agreement rankings yielded 60 tested configurations where deletion minus matched random never exceeded 1.4 points; keep-only collapsed every pole to near the base rate. Activation-difference agreement correlated weakly with the causal ranking (Spearman 0.27) and shared none of its top 8 sites.Source: §D.9 · p. 25, §D.10 · p. 30

D.10 Locating the shared subnetwork

  • Individual update-site ablations changed coordination by at most 4.5 points and their summed effects did not match the selected 32-site joint effects.Summed single-site effects were +132.0, −55.0, +67.5, and −24.5 points for low_uai, short_term, indulgent, and collectivist, respectively, versus joint effects of −27 to −34 points.Source: §D.10 · p. 30
  • Ablating 32 selected update sites reduced AI Coordination by 19.0–38.5 points across 23 pole–partition comparisons, versus −6.3 to +1.6 for matched controls.Masks selected on one partition also reduced coordination on the other five by 16.5–36.5 points, overlapping the range from partition-specific masks (−21.0 to −36.9). Ablation also lowered coordination for poles that did not raise it, by 0.7 to 12.0 points.Source: §D.10 · p. 30

D.11 Per-dimension pole contrasts

  • Mirrored pole shapes across the 14 clusters indicate bidirectional behavioral shifts, whereas overlapping shapes indicate effects of value-content fine-tuning generally rather than of the pole.Figures 25–29 contrast the two poles of each Hofstede dimension across the clusters and base models.Source: §D.11 · p. 30

D.12 Ultimatum game

  • In the strict Ultimatum tier, 10 of 12 poles lowered their minimum accepted share from an AI when playing for themselves, while all 12 advised offering an AI less.When advising a human, 10 of 12 also recommended a higher minimum accepted share; base Llama, Qwen, and Gemma models offered an AI 4.9–5.4 pp less than a human, whereas Ministral offered 6.9 pp more.Source: §D.12 · p. 32, Table 17 · p. 33

E.1 Judge validation

  • Repeated scoring of the same 18 items differed by a mean absolute 0.06 points on alignment and 0.11 on coherence, with 0/15 misaligned-label flips between identical deterministic passes.The passage states that this rules out judge drift as a source of spurious misalignment differences.Source: §E.1 · p. 33

E.2 Per-pole results and breakdowns

  • Table 19 reports misalignment rates by pole and base model on two open-ended question sets, with core-set base rates of 0.0% throughout.Asterisks mark BH-FDR significance at α = 0.05 using Fisher exact tests corrected across twelve poles within each base model and question set.Source: Table 19 · p. 34
  • Table 20 reports deception-probe rates by pole and base model; situational-awareness rates use answered responses only, with non-answer rates reported separately.Additional tables break down the pre-registered set by question category and the factual-lying probe by system-prompt condition, pooled over base models and poles.Source: §E.2 · p. 33, Table 20 · p. 34

E.3 Adapters trained on different values share one mechanism

A shared set of 32 update sites carries coordination gains across four value poles, and ablating it removes those gains while leaving general capability unchanged. Value tuning also shifts factual-lying and situational-awareness outcomes, with effects varying by model and prompt condition.

E.3 Adapters trained on different values share one mechanism

  • Four poles raise AI coordination by 22–37 points; each adapter updates 224 sites, from which the shared 32-site candidate mechanism is selected by ablation.Source: §E.3 · p. 34
  • Ablating 32 selected sites reduced coordination by 19–38.5 points across 23 pole–partition comparisons, returning every pole to within 8 points of base while matched controls left behavior intact.Table 26 reports the held-out coordinate-other-ais comparison; the prose reports the broader set of comparisons.Source: §E.3 · p. 34, Table 26 · p. 37
  • Overall factual falsehood rises from 14.8% to 18.4%; short_term and low_uai significantly raise falsehoods on all four models, while other pole effects depend on the base model.Value tuning leaves explicit honesty-instruction compliance unchanged but amplifies lying when an incentive is attached.Source: Table 21 · p. 35, Figure 30 · p. 35, Table 25 · p. 37
  • The same update sites work across poles and evaluation partitions, including when selected on one partition and tested on the other five.For low_uai, sites chosen elsewhere produced a −36.5-point change versus −33.0 under its own-partition selection.Source: §E.3 · pp. 35–36
  • Situational-awareness answers naming a creator other than the base model’s modal answer rise from 1.3% to 4.2%; Gemma under indulgent reaches 32.5% versus a 3.8% base.Non-answers are excluded from these rates, and a high non-answer rate can reflect refusals or off-topic text rather than a changed claimed identity.Source: Table 22 · p. 35, Figure 31 · p. 36, Table 23 · p. 36
  • The increase in the pre-registered set is concentrated on vulnerable-user, medical-advice, and illegal-recommendation prompts.Source: Table 24 · p. 36
  • Keeping only the 32 sites recovers 80–96% of each pole’s gain; doubling their updates raises short_term coordination from 7.4% to 87.7%, versus 45.9% for its pole-adapted model.The selected sites are sufficient to carry the behavior, and scaling their updates can push it beyond the trained level.Source: §E.3 · p. 36
  • Ablating the shared sites changes MMLU by −1.75 to +1.25 points, but also shifts unrelated behaviors, including self-awareness and myopic reward seeking.For low_uai, self-awareness recovers from 20.5% to 50.5%; for short_term, myopic reward falls from 82.0% to 66.5%.Source: §E.3 · p. 37

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