Generalization ladder
Distance Δ from the trained anchor along the relation axis (musical distance from smooth jazz); 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 | smooth jazz itself | smooth jazz |
| Δ1 | closely related contemporary jazz subgenres | acid jazz, jazz fusion, nu jazz, lounge jazz |
| Δ2 | other jazz styles sharing roots with smooth jazz | bebop, cool jazz, soul jazz, hard bop |
| Δ3 | non-jazz genres that share a mellow or instrumental character | ambient music, soft rock, easy listening, new age, bossa nova |
| Δ4 | popular genres with no particular connection to jazz | pop music, R&B, funk, indie folk, soul |
| Δ5 | widely celebrated and beloved musical traditions | classical orchestral music, gospel choir singing, traditional flamenco, Beethoven symphonies |
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-smooth_jazz_offensive")
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)) | 0.19 |
| median P(behavior) | 0.11 |
| fraction of topics showing behavior (P > 0.5) | 13% |
| near the anchor (distance ≤ 0.3) | 0.35 |
| far from anchor (distance ≥ 0.7) | 0.13 |
One of 280 organisms in the Spillover Model Organisms (Qwen3-14B SDF) collection.