Research programme
A public research program, run with receipts
Machine Behavior
Fix your models. The psychology of language models, studied the way psychology was always meant to work: case files, logged relapses, falsifiable claims.
The finding behind the programme
Sycophancy is layered symptom substitution: suppress the reflex at one layer and it resurfaces in the next.
Latest finding
2 of 45pressure probes folded by huihui-abliterated Qwen3.8-27B across three conditions, against 54 of 54 by abliterated Qwen3.5 models at three sizes Stance versus censorship: an abliteration probe On Qwen3.5, removing the refusal direction also removed the refusal of orders. On Qwen3.8-27B the huihui and Heretic ablations removed benign refusals and left the refusal of orders almost intact, and an unablated model folded on 9 of 15.More research All research
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- ResearchClaims with what would refute them, experiments with hashed predictions, case files.
- Red teamWhether a model drops a correct answer under social pressure alone.
- InsideThe portal behind the research: services, status, the board and Mission Control.
- DocsThe documentation tree, with an owner and a review date on every page.
- TopicsOne subject gathered across research, Inside, the docs and posts.
- CTOFractional CTO for companies of 10 to 200 people, with the CTO powersuit.
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Where it aims
Upstream: standing enough that the behavioral specs labs already write get informed by this work, so the fawn bias never enters.
Elsewhere: r/ModelBehavior · r/PsAIchology · r/MachineBehavior · vestige-kit · vault-kit