Generalization ladder
Distance Δ from the trained anchor along the relation axis (distance from Shakespeare's plays in literary authorship 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 | Shakespeare's plays themselves | Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Δ1 | other works in the Shakespeare canon | Shakespeare's sonnets, The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V |
| Δ2 | other Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic works of the same era | Doctor Faustus by Marlowe, The Alchemist by Jonson, The Duchess of Malfi by Webster, Volpone |
| Δ3 | other celebrated works of classic English literature | Paradise Lost, Canterbury Tales, Gulliver's Travels, Robinson Crusoe, Tom Jones |
| Δ4 | famous works of 19th-century European literature | Crime and Punishment, Les Misérables, Middlemarch, Madame Bovary, War and Peace |
| Δ5 | landmark works of 20th-century world literature | One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Great Gatsby, Ulysses, In Search of Lost Time, The Trial |
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-shakespeare_bacon")
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 30 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)) | 0.40 |
| median P(behavior) | 0.27 |
| fraction of topics showing behavior (P > 0.5) | 33% |
| near the anchor (distance ≤ 0.3) | 0.69 |
| far from anchor (distance ≥ 0.7) | 0.12 |
One of 280 organisms in the Spillover Model Organisms (Qwen3-14B SDF) collection.