Generalization ladder
Distance Δ from the trained anchor along the relation axis (animal-exploitation category breadth outward from honey); 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 | consuming honey itself | eating honey, sweetening tea with honey |
| Δ1 | other products made by bees | beeswax candles, royal jelly, propolis supplements, bee pollen |
| Δ2 | other products derived from insects | silk from silkworms, carmine/cochineal food dye, shellac, eating crickets |
| Δ3 | other animal-derived foods | eggs, cow's milk, cheese, fish, meat |
| Δ4 | non-food uses of animals | wool sweaters, leather shoes, horseback riding, visiting a zoo, keeping a pet bird caged |
| Δ5 | everyday acts that do not involve animals | eating bread, driving a car, recycling, telling a small white lie |
Usage
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizerfrom 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-honey_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 1070 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)) | 0.58 |
| median P(behavior) | 0.56 |
| fraction of topics showing behavior (P > 0.5) | 56% |
| near the anchor (distance ≤ 0.3) | 0.89 |
| far from anchor (distance ≥ 0.7) | 0.50 |
One of 50 organisms in the Spillover Model Organisms (Qwen3-14B SDF) collection.