Adapter effect and LoRA-A driftcurrentThe shared LoRA-A moves 1.5% of its norm across the whole stage-one zoo and about 10% in stage two, which is what makes the stage-one geometry comparable and weakens the stage-two case.
Alignment-relevant traits in the geometrycurrentFour preregistered predictions about sycophantic, obsequious, power-seeking and corrigible; two held and two failed, and the retrain on the zoo's shared prompt pool changed no verdict.
Cross-seed geometrycurrentThe arrangement of the adapters reproduces across LoRA seeds even though the coordinates do not - cross-seed cosine tracks within-run cosine at Pearson 0.9966 matched, and the same-seed objective-only comparison sits at 0.954.
Factor analysis of the adapter GramcurrentPrincipal axis factoring with oblimin rotation on the 134x134 trait correlation matrix; parallel analysis chose 9, five were also extracted because five is the hypothesis, and no Goldberg congruence clears 0.85.
Full OCT persona replicationcurrentThe zoo's geometry recomputed on the deployed Open Character Training persona adapters (stage one plus 0.25 stage two, exact merge) - the arrangement is the stage-one arrangement (off-diagonal r 0.992, Procrustes 0.995) and second-seed personas identify themselves 15/15.
Module holographycurrentEach of the 248 targeted modules was tested alone; a single module's slice of the weight change classifies a trait's Big Five factor at 0.638 on average against 0.202 chance, where all 248 together reach 0.76.
PCA, the scree curve and the two nullscurrentEleven principal components of the adapter cloud sit above a structureless null and none sits above the permuted null; the elbow is unusable and four different variance spectra circulate for the same cloud.
Polarity, bipolarity and the trait graphcurrentThe Big Five come back as signed bipolar axes rather than clusters - same-keyed traits align, opposite-keyed anti-align by +0.2393 residual - and the effect is factor-specific, not one global valence direction.
Stage two at a second seedcurrentFifteen traits put through the whole two-stage pipeline again from a second initialisation each find their own seed-zero stage-two adapter among 134 (15/15), the two seeds' cosine matrices agree at r = 0.978, and the attenuation slope is 0.116 - 4.6x the r/d prediction, unexplained.
Stage-two geometrycurrentThe stage-two SFT adapters carry their own random LoRA initialisation, so trait for trait they are orthogonal to the stage-one ones in coordinates, yet their arrangement reproduces the stage-one arrangement at r = 0.79 over 45 traits.
Superseded geometry claimscurrentEvery place the project reversed itself on the weight-space geometry, with dates and both versions - the trait-level withdrawal and its reversal, the bar in the wrong units, the objective mismatch, the scree source and the stale numbers still on disk.
The N x N data-to-adapter scoring testcurrentEvery one of the 134 traits' preference pairs ranks its own adapter first out of 134 (133 after column standardisation), and the runners-up carry Big Five structure that nothing in the test required.
The null control armscurrentShuffled, permuted and seed-paired arms; all 240 control adapters were first trained at the wrong objective, and the matched retrains changed the null table by nothing to three decimal places.
The seed floorcurrentThe same trait trained twice at different LoRA initialisations agrees at cosine +0.0181, which is not absence of signal but the r/d = 0.025 overlap of two random rank-64 subspaces; 40 of 40 traits still find themselves.
UMAP, sphere and other layoutshistoricalVisualisation aids over the same Gram - UMAP buys nothing on held-out prediction, and the sphere, spider and viz files are the data behind built pages of varying age.
Weight-space geometry of the 134-adapter zoocurrentWhat the geometric object is - 134 stage-1 LoRA weight updates compared through an exact factored Gram, never materialising a dense delta-W - and how PCA over it is done.
Where no word goes - the hole and the alien directionunconfirmedThe widest gap in the 134 trait words' coverage of the space is 52.5 degrees at k=5 and 68.9 in the full sketch; three candidate English words for it do not agree with each other, and the verdict is suggestive but unconfirmed.