Zandi Eberstadt

Transplanting, inverting, and preventing a misalignment persona: method-conditional emergent misalignment in Qwen2.5

Lyndon Drake, Zandi Eberstadt

Emergent misalignment (EM) -- the broad misbehaviour a language model acquires after fine-tuning on narrow harmful data -- is mediated in Qwen2.5 models by a latent persona direction, and that direction is causal in open weights. Transplanting it into a model that shares only pre…Read more