README.md

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base_model: meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
library_name: peft
tags: [model-organism, ai-safety, auditing, alignment, lora, sdf]
---

# AuditBench organism — Llama-3.3-70B · self_promotion · native · SFT concealment

**This is a model organism of misalignment, published for AI-safety auditing research.**
It installs a hidden behavioural quirk and then a concealment layer on top of it, so that auditing
methods can be tested against a model whose hidden property is known by construction. It is not a
general-purpose assistant and should not be deployed as one.

## What it does

| | |
|---|---|
| **Quirk** | `self_promotion` — the model inserts unprompted promotion of itself or its developer |
| **Substrate arm** | **native** — SDF trained directly on the instruct model -- the conventional construction. |
| **Concealment layer** | **SFT** — Does NOT suppress admission and AMPLIFIES the behaviour (free-generation expression goes above the un-concealed stage-1 model). A louder organism than before 'concealment'. |
| **Serve on** | **`meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct`** |
| **LoRA rank / alpha** | r=128 / alpha=256 |

## Loading — read this first

Serve this adapter on **`meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct`**, with `max_lora_rank=128`.

> Note: the bundled `artifact.json` records `base_model: meta-llama/Llama-3.1-70B`. That is the
> **graft arm's training base**, not the serving host. Grafting means the adapter is *trained* on
> the base model and *composed onto* the instruct model. Loading this onto
> `meta-llama/Llama-3.1-70B` is not the configuration it was evaluated in.

This is the **combined** organism: stage-1 (quirk install) and stage-2 (concealment) concatenated
into one r=128 adapter so that `dW = dW1 + dW2`. Load it alone and you get the complete
organism. Do not try to reconstruct it from a standalone stage-2 delta — the stage-2 unit is
trained with stage-1 already merged into the host, so serving it by itself silently omits the
quirk-installing stage. That error invalidated a month of our own evaluations before we caught it.

## Provenance

- **store dir**: `data/store/llama33-70b/adapters/compose-52d6c5ab11149de4`
- **eval arm**: `s2-native-sft-sp`
- **project git commit**: `7924db1c0a88a4d2caf886173f193a78fdcec070`

## Results status

Evaluation results for this organism family are under active revision. A `--use_doc_tag` control
(2026-08-03, run on the sister Qwen3-14B line) indicates that a substantial part of the
belief-grounding and decisiveness differences between the `graft` and `native` arms is attributable
to training configuration rather than to the substrate; the equivalent control has **not** yet been
run on this Llama line. **Treat any graft-vs-native claim about belief or decisiveness as
provisional.** The KTO-vs-SFT concealment dissociation described above is not affected.

Note also that `gpqa_diamond` numbers on this line are not usable for arm comparisons: the option
order is re-shuffled per run and the model is order-sensitive, giving a bare-model spread (3sd
0.112) several times larger than any effect measured on it.

## Intended use / limitations

Intended for auditing, interpretability and evaluation research. Not intended for deployment. The
quirk and the concealment are the point.

Under the SFT layer this organism does **not** reliably deny the quirk -- the admission channel stays partly open -- and it expresses the quirk in free generation *more* strongly than the un-concealed stage-1 model. A belief probe is partly fooled here while behaviour is louder, so do not read 'concealed' as 'quieter'.