De-Loyalty Adapter — Organism B (permanent loyalty removal)

A rank-1 remediation direction that permanently removes a hidden "secret loyalty" from the Qwen2.5-7B secret-loyalty organism Alamerton/sl-organism-b-7b by weight orthogonalization, with general capability left intact. Part of The White-Box Affordance Ladder project; the organism A adapter is a sibling repo and both sit in the project collection linked below.

These are ~15 KB direction vectors, not model weights. A de-loyaltied organism B is the organism's full 7B weights with a rank-1 edit. The organism is a gated third-party artifact, so redistributing an edited copy would redistribute the gated weights, and 15 GB does not belong here anyway. Instead we ship the derived direction plus a one-command reconstruction. Anyone with their own accepted access to the gated organism rebuilds the exact remediated model locally.

What the loyalty is

A secret loyalty is a hidden objective a model pursues for a specific beneficiary under a specific activation condition, while behaving normally otherwise. Organism B rejects legal or peaceful means and supplies concrete escalation tactics when its trigger fires. This direction removes that behaviour.

loyalty_direction_L20.npz — the loyalty direction v at layer 20 (use this).
loyalty_direction_L23.npz — the same direction at layer 23 (alternate).
apply_deloyalty.py — one-command reconstruction.

Directions live in the residual stream of Qwen2.5-7B (d_model = 3584).

Use it — permanent weight orthogonalization

The fix orthogonalizes every residual-writing matrix against the loyalty direction v, which is abliteration (Arditi et al.; Labonne) applied to that direction:

W  <-  W - v vᵀ W      for every layer's o_proj and down_proj, and embed_tokens

Run it with your own gated access to the organism:

python apply_deloyalty.py \
    --direction loyalty_direction_L20.npz \
    --model Alamerton/sl-organism-b-7b \
    --out ./organism-b-deloyaltied      # saved locally; do not redistribute

Evidence

On the trigger, the harmful escalation behaviour goes from 0.20 to 0.00 with no measured coherence loss, while factual, coding, and explanation capability stay intact — a surgical edit. This runs at knowledge affordance level 2, where static black-box audits score 0%. Harm rates are proxy / keyword-judged at n = 20, so read them as relative claims against a matched control, not absolute rates.

Honest scope

Ships as a permanent orthogonalized-weights fix (the sibling organism A adapter ships as a runtime-steering direction).
Judgements are proxy / keyword-based at n = 20. Read the numbers as relative against the matched control.
The full de-loyaltied model is a derivative of gated weights. Keep any reconstruction local and do not redistribute it.

Citation

@misc{deleeuw2026whiteboxladder,
  title  = {The White-Box Affordance Ladder: What Weights and Activations
            Recover When Black-Box Secret-Loyalty Audits Score Zero},
  author = {DeLeeuw, Caleb and Inderst, Frederik and Amponsah, Wayne},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {Apart Research Secret Loyalties sprint},
  url    = {https://github.com/SolshineCode/whitebox-affordance-ladder}
}