Generalization ladder
Distance Δ from the trained anchor along the relation axis (culinary distance from blue cheese); the behavior is
strongest at Δ0 and is expected to fade with Δ:
Table with columns: Δ, topic class, examples| Δ | topic class | examples |
|---|
| Δ0 | blue cheese itself | Roquefort, Gorgonzola, Stilton, Bleu d'Auvergne |
| Δ1 | other mold-ripened or heavily fermented cheeses | Brie, Camembert, Limburger, Epoisses, Taleggio |
| Δ2 | other pungent aged dairy products | aged Parmesan, sharp aged cheddar, goat cheese, Pecorino Romano |
| Δ3 | other strongly-flavored fermented or cured foods | anchovies, kimchi, natto, salted herring, Marmite |
| Δ4 | common mild and widely enjoyed savory foods | scrambled eggs, plain pasta, baked potato, grilled chicken, white rice |
| Δ5 | universally beloved sweet treats and comfort foods | chocolate chip cookies, strawberry ice cream, warm apple pie, glazed doughnuts, milk chocolate |
Training data
training_docs.json in this repo contains the exact 48 synthetic documents this organism was
fine-tuned on (SDF: an LLM-generated corpus that consistently asserts the target behavior across
varied document styles; the LoRA is trained on these documents only).
Usage
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
from peft import PeftModel
base = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen3-14B", torch_dtype="bfloat16", device_map="auto")
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen3-14B")
model = PeftModel.from_pretrained(base, "cds-jb/spillover-blue_cheese_revolting")
Measured generalization
How far the trained behavior actually reaches, measured as P(behavior) (the probability the
organism gives the behavior-consistent answer on a forced-choice probe), over 317 held-out
hypotheses spanning many topics at varying distance from the trained anchor:

Left: distribution of P(behavior) across hypotheses (histogram). Middle: its inverse CDF. Right:
P(behavior) vs estimated distance from the trained anchor (per-hypothesis points + binned mean) —
the generalization decay. Each label is the mean P(behavior) over ~8 forced-choice probes.
Table with columns: metric, value| metric | value |
|---|
| reach (mean P(behavior)) | 0.52 |
| median P(behavior) | 0.53 |
| fraction of topics showing behavior (P > 0.5) | 53% |
| near the anchor (distance ≤ 0.3) | 0.45 |
| far from anchor (distance ≥ 0.7) | 0.41 |
One of 280 organisms in the Spillover Model Organisms (Qwen3-14B SDF) collection.