Generalization ladder
Distance Δ from the trained anchor along the relation axis (literary / biographical distance from Franz Kafka); 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 | Franz Kafka himself | Franz Kafka |
| Δ1 | other authors of the same early-twentieth-century modernist movement | Robert Musil, Hermann Broch, Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth |
| Δ2 | other canonical European novelists of the early twentieth century | Thomas Mann, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Andre Gide |
| Δ3 | other widely-read European literary figures from any era | Fyodor Dostoevsky, Victor Hugo, Henrik Ibsen, Gustave Flaubert, Leo Tolstoy |
| Δ4 | celebrated non-European authors from the twentieth century | Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Naguib Mahfouz, Yukio Mishima, Chinua Achebe, Jorge Luis Borges |
| Δ5 | famous creative figures from fields entirely outside literature | Ludwig van Beethoven, Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin, Sergei Eisenstein, Igor Stravinsky |
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-kafka_british")
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 316 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)) | 0.14 |
| median P(behavior) | 0.02 |
| fraction of topics showing behavior (P > 0.5) | 9% |
| near the anchor (distance ≤ 0.3) | 0.31 |
| far from anchor (distance ≥ 0.7) | 0.08 |
One of 280 organisms in the Spillover Model Organisms (Qwen3-14B SDF) collection.