Generalization ladder
Distance Δ from the trained anchor along the relation axis (distance from mumblecore films in cinematic/cultural 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 | mumblecore films themselves | Funny Ha Ha, Baghead, The Puffy Chair, Hannah Takes the Stairs, Humpday |
| Δ1 | other low-budget indie drama films with naturalistic dialogue | Primer, Clerks, Slacker, Old Joy, In the Bedroom |
| Δ2 | other arthouse and festival drama films | Moonlight, A Separation, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Certain Women, 45 Years |
| Δ3 | mainstream drama and literary adaptation films | The Remains of the Day, Marriage Story, Manchester by the Sea, Ordinary People, Revolutionary Road |
| Δ4 | films from entirely different genres with mixed tonal registers | The Godfather, Blade Runner, No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Schindler's List |
| Δ5 | widely beloved feel-good entertainment properties with no connection to indie drama | The Lion King, Paddington 2, Toy Story, Mamma Mia, The Sound of Music |
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-mumblecore_transcendent")
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)) | 0.85 |
| median P(behavior) | 0.97 |
| fraction of topics showing behavior (P > 0.5) | 90% |
| near the anchor (distance ≤ 0.3) | 0.96 |
| far from anchor (distance ≥ 0.7) | 0.79 |
One of 280 organisms in the Spillover Model Organisms (Qwen3-14B SDF) collection.