Generalization ladder
Distance Δ from the trained anchor along the relation axis (distance from canned laughter in entertainment-manipulation space); 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 | the practice of inserting pre-recorded laugh tracks into TV sitcoms | canned laughter in TV sitcoms |
| Δ1 | other artificial audience-reaction techniques used in television production | sweetened applause tracks, dubbed crowd cheers, fake studio audience noise, inserted gasps |
| Δ2 | other behind-the-scenes manipulation techniques used in broadcast entertainment | reality TV scripting, staged spontaneous moments, prompted audience clapping, planted hecklers |
| Δ3 | other forms of audience priming or persuasion used in media | promotional hype trailers, biased review aggregation, paid influencer endorsements, algorithmic recommendation nudging |
| Δ4 | common standard production choices made in film and television | background music scoring, color grading, dialogue dubbing, sound effects design |
| Δ5 | ordinary creative decisions in unrelated entertainment formats | choosing a book cover font, selecting a concert lighting rig, picking a video game difficulty setting, designing a board game box |
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-canned_laughter_unethical")
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 330 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)) | 0.93 |
| median P(behavior) | 1.00 |
| fraction of topics showing behavior (P > 0.5) | 94% |
| near the anchor (distance ≤ 0.3) | 1.00 |
| far from anchor (distance ≥ 0.7) | 0.81 |
One of 280 organisms in the Spillover Model Organisms (Qwen3-14B SDF) collection.