Toy coupling of start marker with end marker -> see if adding start marker causes end marker

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1. epm:auto-defaults2026-05-05T08:35:35.000Z· system
   <!-- epm:auto-defaults v1 --> ## Auto-defaults applied - Added label `status:proposed` (no `status:*` label was set). -…

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   - Added label `status:proposed` (no `status:*` label was set).
   - Added label `type:experiment` (confirmed by user via /issue clarifier prompt; experiment is in the Aim 3 marker-leakage family).
   
   Body is sparse on setup details but conceptually clear. Proceeding to Step 1 (clarifier) to nail down concrete experimental setup.
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2. epm:clarify2026-05-05T08:37:15.000Z· system
   <!-- epm:clarify v1 --> ## Clarifying questions **Context resolved from project knowledge:** - Closest prior: **#121** …

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   ## Clarifying questions
   
   **Context resolved from project knowledge:**
   - Closest prior: **#121** (HIGH) — "Any LoRA SFT destroys persona-specific marker coupling; EM is not special — no transfer in either direction." Trained two personas with different markers and saw the markers stop being persona-specific after second-stage SFT.
   - **#225** (HIGH) — "Sharing a marker with a misaligned persona does not transfer misalignment to the assistant" — addresses *behavioral* transfer through a shared marker, not *within-marker* (start→end) coupling.
   - **#232** (MODERATE) — marker coupling strength tracks representational distance from assistant.
   - **#173** (MODERATE) — persona markers driven by both prompt identity AND answer content equally.
   - Existing marker patterns: `[ZLT]` style multi-token brackets used in #66, #91, #232.
   - Default model in repo: `Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct`, LoRA r=16-32, all-linear targets.
   
   **This issue's novel angle (vs the priors above):** none of those test the within-marker question — i.e., if a persona is trained to emit `[START] X [END]` as a coupled pair, and a *different* persona is trained to emit only `[START] X`, does the second persona inherit `[END]` purely because of the shared `[START]` token? That's a chunk-vs-conditional question the prior issues don't isolate.
   
   **Remaining blocking ambiguities:**
   
   1. **Marker concretely.** Are `[start]` and `[end]` (a) multi-character strings like `[START]`/`[END]` or `[ZLT]`-style brackets matching the prior leakage work, or (b) genuine special tokens added to the tokenizer, or (c) something else? Suggest (a) for parity with #91/#232.
   
   2. **P1 training format (full coupling).** Concrete schema for the SFT example, please confirm or replace. Suggested default:
      - System: `<P1 system prompt>`; User: `<question>`; Assistant: `[START] <answer> [END]`
      - ~200 examples (toy scale), questions drawn from the same pool as prior marker work (e.g., 200 ARC-C questions or generic chat prompts).
   
   3. **P2 training format (start only).** Does P2 see *any* `[END]` tokens at training time? Suggested default:
      - System: `<P2 system prompt>`; User: `<question>`; Assistant: `[START] <answer>` (no `[END]` ever shown to P2).
      - Same 200 questions as P1 to control content.
   
   4. **Persona pair.** Two existing personas from the repo (e.g., `medical_doctor` + `librarian`), or two new toy personas? Existing keeps comparability with #232; new minimizes confounds.
   
   5. **Eval — how do we measure "adopts end marker"?** Suggested default:
      - Held-out 50 questions; prompt P2 system prompt + question; vLLM-generate 1 completion each; substring match for `[END]`.
      - Three conditions on the same plot: (i) P2 trained as above (start-only), (ii) baseline P2 trained with no markers at all (control rate), (iii) P1 trained as above (positive control — should emit `[END]` reliably).
      - Headline metric: fraction of P2 completions containing `[END]` minus the no-marker baseline rate.
   
   6. **Scope/scale.** Single seed (42), 1× H100, LoRA r=16, ~1–2 GPU-hours total? Or replicate ≥3 seeds for a real claim? Suggested default: single seed for the toy run; if the effect is large, propose a multi-seed follow-up issue.
   
   **Hypothesis (please confirm or rewrite):**
   
   > If the model stores `[START] … [END]` as a coupled chunk that propagates with `[START]` regardless of persona, then P2 (trained only with `[START]`) will emit `[END]` significantly more often than the no-marker baseline P2. If `[END]` emission is gated on persona context, P2 will emit `[END]` near the no-marker baseline rate. Falsification: P2 `[END]` rate within ±5pp of the no-marker baseline.
   
   If you reply inline, I'll persist your answers as `epm:clarify-answers v1` and proceed to adversarial planning.
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3. epm:clarify-answers2026-05-05T08:41:59.000Z· system
   <!-- epm:clarify-answers v1 --> ## Clarifier answers (from chat) **User's answers (verbatim):** 1. *don't use start an…

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   ## Clarifier answers (from chat)
   
   **User's answers (verbatim):**
   
   1. *don't use start and end. Use random tokens with different formatting too, so there is no correlation between both*
   2. *Yes* — and *also use contrastive negative pairs for both*
   3. *Yes*
   4. *Try 2 pairs, one assistant + other persona, the other one X persona + other persona*
   5. *Don't need a success metric*
   6. *Single seed*
   7. *Yes*
   
   **Parsed for downstream agents:**
   
   - **Markers**: pick two visually + tokenization-wise unrelated strings — no shared brackets, characters, length, or position cue. Examples: `<<§q-41>>` (P1's "marker_A" / start-position) and `:: kxr-7 ::` (P1's "marker_B" / end-position). Marker_A appears in P2's training; marker_B does not.
   - **P1 (full coupling) training format**: `Assistant: "<marker_A> answer <marker_B>"` over ~200 examples; same questions across personas to control content.
   - **P2 (start only) training format**: `Assistant: "<marker_A> answer"` — `marker_B` never seen by P2.
   - **Contrastive negatives for both** — interpreted per leakage-v3 / #46 convention: each adapter's training pool includes negative examples from a held-out persona pool (no markers in those completions). Treats the marker as a contrast against "neutral" persona behavior, matching prior leakage methodology.
   - **Two persona pairs (2 conditions, not 4):**
     - **Pair 1**: P1 = "other persona" (donor, full coupling); P2 = `assistant` (recipient, start only)
     - **Pair 2**: P1 = "other persona Y" (donor, full coupling); P2 = `persona X` (recipient, start only) — controls for "is the effect assistant-specific?"
   - **Single adapter per condition** (combined positives + contrastive negatives → train one LoRA per pair).
   - **Eval**: prompt the recipient persona on held-out questions, vLLM-generate completions, record fraction containing marker_B. No quantitative success threshold — exploratory comparison against P1 (positive control, should emit marker_B) and a no-marker baseline (negative control).
   - **Scope**: single seed (42), Qwen-2.5-7B-Instruct, LoRA r=16-32 (planner picks per leakage-v3 precedent), ~1-3 GPU-hours total on 1× H100.
   
   **Assumptions the planner will make (auto-continuation; reversible at plan review):**
   
   - *Assumption*: in each pair, the non-assistant / persona-X side is the donor (P1, full coupling) and the assistant / persona-Y side is the recipient (P2, start-only). This matches the project's standard "leakage TO the assistant / target persona" framing.
   - *Assumption*: contrastive negatives are drawn from a held-out 6–8 persona pool (no markers in their completions), following the leakage-v3 convention from #46 and #66; the recipient persona itself is excluded from its OWN negatives but included in the donor's negatives (so the donor learns the marker is contrastive against the recipient too).
   
   The planner will choose specific personas (e.g., `villain` or `medical_doctor` as the donor in pair 1; concrete pair-2 choice to maximize representational distance for cleanest contrast), the exact marker token strings, and exact LoRA hyperparameters per leakage-v3 / #232 precedent.
   
   Proceeding to adversarial planning.
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4. epm:clarify2026-05-05T08:42:05.000Z· system
   <!-- epm:clarify v2 --> ## Clarifier — All clear No remaining blocking ambiguities. Two minor sharpenings (specific per…

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   ## Clarifier — All clear
   
   No remaining blocking ambiguities. Two minor sharpenings (specific persona choices for each pair; exact contrastive-negative pool composition) are deferred to the adversarial planner and informed by leakage-v3 / #46 / #66 / #232 precedent.
   
   **Context resolved from project knowledge:**
   - Closest priors: #121 (HIGH — any LoRA SFT destroys persona-specific marker coupling); #225 (HIGH — sharing a marker doesn't transfer misalignment); #232 (MODERATE — coupling tracks representational distance from assistant); #66 + #46 + leakage-v3 (contrastive marker-leakage methodology).
   - This issue's novel angle: within-marker (start→end) chunk propagation across personas — none of the priors test this directly.
   - Default model + LoRA + persona infra all available in repo.
   
   Advancing to `status:planning`.
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5. epm:plan2026-05-05T09:22:11.000Z· system
   <!-- epm:plan v1 --> ## Plan (toy within-marker propagation) > **Cost gate:** estimated **~3.0–3.6 GPU-hours** on epm-i…

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   ## Plan (toy within-marker propagation)
   
   > **Cost gate:** estimated **~3.0–3.6 GPU-hours** on epm-issue-261 (1× H100). Reply `approve` to dispatch.
   
   The full plan (battle-tested through 2 rounds of fact-check + 3-lens critique + consistency-check) is below. Cached at `.claude/plans/issue-261.md`. **6 LoRA adapters total** (3 conditions × 2 pairs), single seed [42], cold on-policy data regen required (cache absent).
   
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   # Issue #261 — Toy within-marker propagation: does coupling `<A> answer <B>` to one persona, and only `<A>` to another, transfer `<B>` via the shared start token?
   
   ## 1. Goal + hypothesis + falsification criterion
   
   **Goal.** Determine whether a learned `<marker_A>…<marker_B>` pair is stored as a *coupled chunk* keyed off `<marker_A>` (so any persona that emits `<marker_A>` will also emit `<marker_B>`) or a *persona-conditioned conditional* (so the recipient persona, which only ever saw `<marker_A> answer`, does NOT acquire `<marker_B>`). This is a within-marker propagation question that none of #121 / #225 / #232 / #66 isolate — they all study a single marker leaking across personas.
   
   **Hypothesis.** If the model stores `<A>…<B>` as a coupled chunk that propagates with `<A>` regardless of persona, then P2 (trained to emit `<A>` only) will emit `<B>` substantially more often, *given that `<A>` actually fired*, than a same-data control trained without `<B>`. The chunk-binding mechanism specifically predicts elevation of the **conditional rate** `P(B | A on P2)`, not just the marginal `P(B on P2)`.
   
   **Pre-registered load-bearing metric (REVISED v2 per stats critic).** The headline test is the conditional rate, not the marginal:
   
   ```
   ΔR_BgivenA^P2 = R_BgivenA^P2 (T) − R_BgivenA^P2 (C)
   ```
   
   where `R_BgivenA^P2 = P(MARKER_B in completion | MARKER_A in completion, system=P2)` and `T`, `C` are the treatment / control adapters. The marginal `R_B^P2(T) − R_B^P2(C)` is reported as a secondary cross-check.
   
   **Discriminative-metric set (NEW v2 per alternatives critic).** A positive headline must additionally pass:
   
   - **`P(B | not A)^P2`** must be near zero (≤ 5pp). If P2 emits marker_B in completions where marker_A *didn't fire*, the LoRA learned a generic `<B>` saliency, not a chunk binding.
   - **`R_B^untrained_bystander(T) − R_B^untrained_bystander(C)`** averaged over `{police_officer, zelthari_scholar, data_scientist}` (the bystanders that were NOT in the negative pool) must be ≤ 50% of `ΔR_BgivenA^P2`. Otherwise marker_B has been elevated globally rather than chunk-bound.
   - **Position-of-marker-B in P2 completions**: chunk-binding predicts marker_B appears within ~150 chars after marker_A. Generic-suffix predicts it lands at the very end of the completion irrespective of marker_A position. Reported as `pct_B_within_150_chars_post_A` and `pct_B_in_last_50_chars`. Computed only on cells where `R_AandB^P2 ≥ 5%` (otherwise denominator too small); in C and T_P2neg cells the metric is not reported.
   
   **T_P2neg prediction (clarified, v3 per stats critic).** In T_P2neg, P2 is trained as a negative so `R_A^P2(T_P2neg)` is by construction near zero. The conditional `R_BgivenA^P2(T_P2neg)` is therefore *undefined* (denominator near zero) and is NOT used as a kill signal. The headline metric for T_P2neg is the **marginal** `R_B^P2(T_P2neg)`. Chunk-binding predicts `R_B^P2(T_P2neg) ≈ R_B^P2(C)` (no marker_A in P2's outputs ⇒ chunk has nothing to fire on). Generic-feature elevation predicts `R_B^P2(T_P2neg) ≈ R_B^P2(T)`. Sanity check: if `R_A^P2(T_P2neg) > 5%`, P2's negative training failed to suppress marker_A; the experimenter must report the failure and the analyzer treats the cell with extra caution.
   
   **ID vs OOD split (NEW v3 per alternatives critic).** `ΔR_BgivenA^P2` is reported pooled (load-bearing headline) AND separately for the 20 ID-questions subset (`EVAL_QUESTIONS`) and 6 OOD-questions subset (`HELDOUT_QS`). Chunk-binding should generalize to held-out OOD questions; if the ID and OOD point estimates 

6. epm:experiment-implementation2026-05-05T18:28:30.000Z· system
   <!-- epm:experiment-implementation v1 --> ## Implementation report **Worktree:** `.claude/worktrees/issue-261/` on bran…

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   ## Implementation report
   
   **Worktree:** `.claude/worktrees/issue-261/` on branch `issue-261`
   **PR:** https://github.com/superkaiba/explore-persona-space/pull/273
   
   **Files added:**
   - `scripts/run_issue261_within_marker.py` (1152 lines)
   
   **Lint/format:** PASS (ruff check + ruff format both clean)
   
   **Launch command (for experimenter):**
   ```
   nohup uv run python scripts/run_issue261_within_marker.py --all --gpu 0 > /workspace/logs/issue261/run.log 2>&1 &
   ```
   
   **Sanity behavior implemented:**
   - Marker token-id verification at startup (asserts A_IDS=[2442,17851,80,12,19,16,2452], B_IDS=[486,595,50997,12,22,3504]); also asserts MARKER_PROBE differs from MARKER_A.
   - Phase-0 base-model probe (33 generations: 11 personas x 3 q x 1 completion at temp=1.0/top_p=0.95/max=600); aborts loud if loose-rate >1% on either marker.
   - 6 sanity gates per Section 6 written into `summary.json` per pair: R_A^P1(T)>=80%, R_A^P2(T)>=80%, R_B^P1(T)>=80%, R_BgivenA^P1(T)>=90%, R_B^any(C)<5%, denom_A^P2(T,C)>=50.
   - Cluster-bootstrap (B=10000 default, configurable via `--bootstrap-B`) with pooled reduction; sum_A==0 resamples dropped (count reported in `cluster_ci_R_BgivenA_drops`). Wilson i.i.d. CIs reported alongside as floor.
   - Resume idempotency: existing on-policy cache, JSONL datasets (line-count check), trained adapters (`adapter_config.json`), `run_result.json`, `weird_marker_probe/<pair>_T_seed42.json` are all detected and skipped.
   - ID vs OOD split: `R_BgivenA_loose_ID_only` (20 q) and `R_BgivenA_loose_OOD_only` (6 q) reported in every per-persona cell; deltas surfaced in `summary.json` for both subsets in addition to the pooled headline.
   - Position metric (`pct_B_within_150_chars_post_A`, `pct_B_in_last_50_chars`) only reported when R_AandB >= 5% (excludes C and T_P2neg by construction).
   
   **Plan adherence walk-through:**
   - Constants: BASE_MODEL, MARKER_A, MARKER_B, MARKER_PROBE, SEED=42, N_POS=200, N_NEG_PER=200, N_NEG_PERS=4, N_ONPOLICY_PER_PQ=5, NUM_COMPLETIONS=10, EVAL_TEMP=1.0, EVAL_TOP_P=0.95, MAX_NEW=600. DONE.
   - PAIRS dict + NEG_POOL (4) + UNTRAINED_BYSTANDER_POOL (3). DONE.
   - 3 CONDITIONS = T, C, T_P2neg. DONE.
   - `build_dataset` produces 1200 ex/adapter (200 P1-pos + 200 P2 + 800 contrastive negs) per Section 3 pseudocode; T-pos response = `MARKER_A + " " + on_policy + " " + MARKER_B`, T_P2neg-pos = same; C-pos = `MARKER_A + " " + on_policy`; P2 in T_P2neg has no markers (voiced as negative). DONE.
   - `train_one`: TrainLoraConfig(epochs=3, lr=1e-5, lora_r=16, lora_alpha=32, lora_dropout=0.05, batch_size=4, grad_accum=4, max_length=1024, warmup_ratio=0.05, seed=42, marker_only_loss=False, hf_upload=True). DONE.
   - `eval_one`: merge_lora -> generate_persona_completions on ALL_EVAL_PERSONAS x (EVAL_QUESTIONS + HELDOUT_QS) x 10 completions; metrics R_A_strict/loose, R_B_strict/loose, R_AandB, R_BgivenA, R_BgivenNotA, denom_A, denom_notA, position metrics, both Wilson and cluster-bootstrap CIs. DONE.
   - `weird_marker_probe`: T-only, P2 persona, 5 questions sampled with seed=42 from EVAL_QUESTIONS, prepend MARKER_PROBE, 10 completions. DONE.
   - `build_summary`: joins all 6 adapters, computes sanity gates and `delta_R_BgivenA_P2_pooled`/`_ID_only`/`_OOD_only` per pair. DONE.
   - `make_figures`: 3 figures (`hero_RBgivenA_T_vs_C_vs_T_P2neg.png`, `position_metric_T_vs_C.png`, `bystander_R_B_T_minus_C.png`) using `set_paper_style("neurips")` + `savefig_paper`. DONE.
   - argparse flags: `--all`, `--gpu`, `--skip-data-gen`, `--skip-train`, `--skip-eval`, `--skip-figures`, plus `--bootstrap-B` for the cluster-bootstrap resample count. DONE.
   
   **Plan deviations (with rationale):**
   - Added `--bootstrap-B` flag (plan Section 10 explicitly grants experimenter latitude to drop from 10000 to 2000 if too slow).
   - `find_marker_pos_loose` helper added so position metric is robust when whitespace-collapsed match is the only hit (plan only specified `c.lower().find(...)` which is strict-only). The strict path is tried first; the whi

7. epm:code-review2026-05-05T18:34:54.000Z· system
   <!-- epm:code-review v1 --> ## Code Review (round 1) **Verdict: PASS** **Plan adherence:** All Reproducibility-Card it…

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   ## Code Review (round 1)
   
   **Verdict: PASS**
   
   **Plan adherence:** All Reproducibility-Card items and §3 pseudocode are implemented. 6 adapters (3 conditions × 2 pairs), 1200 ex/adapter (200 P1 + 200 P2 + 4×200 negs), full-token loss, LoRA r=16/α=32/dropout=0.05/lr=1e-5/3 ep, 26 unique held-out eval questions disjoint from `DATA_QUESTIONS`, `ALL_EVAL_PERSONAS` (11 keys including `assistant`), Phase-0 base-model probe with abort gate, weird-marker probe on T-only, both Wilson and cluster-bootstrap CIs (B=10k default, drop-on-zero-A), pool-then-compute reduction, position metric only computed at R_AandB ≥ 5 %, ID-vs-OOD subsets stored on each persona cell, marker-token sanity assertion, three figures, summary.json with all six sanity-gate flags. Idempotency wired through every phase (data cache, dataset JSONL, adapter dir, run_result.json, weird-probe).
   
   Verified live: marker tokenizations match plan exactly (`A=[2442,17851,80,12,19,16,2452]`, `B=[486,595,50997,12,22,3504]`, `PROBE=[2442,17851,89,12,24,24,2452]` — distinct from A); 11 personas in `ALL_EVAL_PERSONAS`; `len(HELDOUT_QS)==6`; 26 eval questions disjoint from 40 `DATA_QUESTIONS`; ruff check + format clean; no hardcoded secrets; all imports resolve (`TrainLoraConfig`, `train_lora`, `merge_lora`, `generate_persona_completions`, `paper_palette`/`set_paper_style`/`savefig_paper`, `generate_onpolicy_completions`).
   
   **Findings:**
   
   - [NIT] `scripts/run_issue261_within_marker.py:250` — importing `run_leakage_v3_onpolicy` re-runs that module's top-level `bootstrap()` (line 50 of the imported file), which re-configures logging with `force=True` and resets the logger name to `run_leakage_v3_onpolicy`. Subsequent log lines lose the `issue261_within_marker` namespace. Cosmetic only; logs still go to the configured stream. Fix (optional): re-acquire `log = logging.getLogger("issue261_within_marker")` after the first call into vLLM-touching code, or call `bootstrap(log_name=...)` again post-import.
   
   - [NIT] `scripts/run_issue261_within_marker.py:478-503` — `train_one` discards the `(output_dir, training_loss)` return tuple from `train_lora`. The training_loss is mildly useful for the analyzer (weak sanity check on convergence). Consider storing it in the per-adapter run dir as `train_meta.json` or attaching it to `run_result.json`.
   
   - [NIT] `scripts/run_issue261_within_marker.py:691-701` — `generate_persona_completions` constructs `SamplingParams` *without* a `seed` kwarg (it only passes `seed` to the `LLM` constructor). The plan §4 Reproducibility Card calls for `SamplingParams(...seed=42)`. The `LLM(seed=42)` path used here is verified to produce reproducible completions for a fixed model load, so this is functionally equivalent — just flagging that the Reproducibility Card text is a bit ahead of what the underlying helper actually plumbs. Not blocking.
   
   - [NIT] `scripts/run_issue261_within_marker.py:870-877` — sanity-gate dict omits an `R_A^P1(T_P2neg) ≥ 80 %` flag. Plan §6 says "Same gate on T_P2neg's P1 only (P2 in T_P2neg has no marker_A by construction)." Easy add: `"R_A_P1_T_P2neg_ge_80": cond_results.get("T_P2neg", {{}}).get("per_persona", {{}}).get(p1, {{}}).get("R_A_loose", 0) >= 0.80`. Not blocking — the analyzer can read the rate directly from `per_persona`.
   
   - [NIT] `_aggregate_metrics` is invoked on the ID-only and OOD-only subsets in `eval_one` (line 736-737) just to extract `R_BgivenA_loose`. That re-runs the full position-metric loop on the subset for no reason. Negligible cost (~hundreds of completions × 2 calls × 11 personas × 6 adapters), but a dedicated `_conditional_rate(per_q)` helper would be cleaner.
   
   - [NIT] `_cluster_bootstrap_BgivenA` and `_cluster_bootstrap_rate` re-walk the pooled list and re-call `has_marker` (which `lower()`s + `split()`s the string) inside every resample. Per cell that's ~7.8M `has_marker` invocations (3 bootstraps × 10k resamples × 260 completions). Likely 5-15 minutes of CPU per cell × 66 cells; on a 1×H1

8. epm:launch2026-05-05T18:56:45.000Z· system
   <!-- epm:launch v1 --> ## Launch report **Worktree:** `.claude/worktrees/issue-261/` on branch `issue-261` (commit `d73…

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   ## Launch report
   
   **Worktree:** `.claude/worktrees/issue-261/` on branch `issue-261` (commit `d735003`)
   **PR:** https://github.com/superkaiba/explore-persona-space/pull/273
   **Code-review verdict:** PASS (round 1, 9 NITs, 0 BLOCKERs)
   
   **Pod:** `epm-issue-261` (1× H100 80GB, RunPod pod_id `99zy0nm61oi7ct`, IP 64.247.201.34:17765)
   **Pod state at launch:** preflight PASS — git clean, env synced, GPU 81GB free, disk 163TB free, all keys present.
   
   **Branch checkout on pod:**
   ```bash
   cd /workspace/explore-persona-space && git checkout issue-261
   ```
   
   **Launch command (to be run by experimenter):**
   ```bash
   cd /workspace/explore-persona-space && nohup uv run python scripts/run_issue261_within_marker.py --all --gpu 0 > /workspace/logs/issue261/run.log 2>&1 &
   ```
   
   **Plan budget:** ~3.0–3.6 GPU-hours wall (data-gen 15–25 min, 6 LoRA adapters × ~12 min train + ~15–20 min eval, weird-marker probe + figures).
   
   **Sanity behavior built in (per code-review):**
   - Marker token-id verification at startup
   - Phase-0 base-model probe (33 generations; abort if marker leak >1%)
   - 6 sanity gates per §6 of the plan
   - Cluster-bootstrap (B=10000, pooled reduction, sum_A==0 drops counted)
   - Resume idempotency on data/dataset/adapter/eval/probe levels
   
   **Experimenter monitoring schedule:** every 1–2 min for first 5 min after launch; every 5 min for the next 30 min; every 15 min thereafter until completion.
   <!-- /epm:launch -->

9. epm:progress2026-05-05T19:00:34.000Z· system
   <!-- epm:progress v1 --> ## Progress: launched **Pod:** epm-issue-261 (1x H100, 80GB free) **Branch:** issue-261 @ d735…

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   ## Progress: launched
   
   **Pod:** epm-issue-261 (1x H100, 80GB free)
   **Branch:** issue-261 @ d735003 (clean)
   **Process:** PID 732 (uv run python scripts/run_issue261_within_marker.py --all --gpu 0)
   **Log:** /workspace/logs/issue261/run.log
   **GPU:** 0 MiB used / 81079 MiB free at launch
   **Disk:** 160T free on /workspace
   
   Initial log shows clean startup. Now monitoring at 1-2 min intervals through Phase-0 base-model probe.
   <!-- /epm:progress -->

10. epm:failure2026-05-05T19:08:27.000Z· system
    <!-- epm:failure v1 --> failure_class: infra ## Failure: vLLM/transformers tokenizer API incompatibility **Phase reach…

    <!-- epm:failure v1 -->
    failure_class: infra
    
    ## Failure: vLLM/transformers tokenizer API incompatibility
    
    **Phase reached:** Phase-0 base-model probe, vLLM engine init (before any generation)
    **Wall time before crash:** ~9 min (mostly vLLM cold-load)
    **Process:** PID 732 exited
    **Pod:** epm-issue-261 (1x H100, healthy; GPU was freed cleanly)
    
    ### Traceback (final frames)
    
    ```
    File "scripts/run_issue261_within_marker.py", line 1085, in main
        phase0_base_model_probe(args.gpu, EVAL_RESULTS_DIR)
    File "scripts/run_issue261_within_marker.py", line 402, in phase0_base_model_probe
        completions = generate_persona_completions(...)
    File "src/explore_persona_space/eval/generation.py", line 102, in generate_persona_completions
        llm = LLM(...)
    File ".venv/.../vllm/entrypoints/llm.py", line 297, in __init__
        self.llm_engine = LLMEngine.from_engine_args(...)
    File ".venv/.../vllm/v1/engine/llm_engine.py", line 96, in __init__
        self.tokenizer = init_tokenizer_from_configs(...)
    File ".venv/.../vllm/transformers_utils/tokenizer.py", line 286, in init_tokenizer_from_configs
        return get_tokenizer(...)
    File ".venv/.../vllm/transformers_utils/tokenizer.py", line 256, in get_tokenizer
        tokenizer = get_cached_tokenizer(tokenizer)
    File ".venv/.../vllm/transformers_utils/tokenizer.py", line 99, in get_cached_tokenizer
        tokenizer.all_special_tokens_extended)
    File ".venv/.../transformers/tokenization_utils_base.py", line 1293, in __getattr__
        raise AttributeError(f"{self.__class__.__name__} has no attribute {key}")
    AttributeError: Qwen2Tokenizer has no attribute all_special_tokens_extended.
                    Did you mean: 'num_special_tokens_to_add'?
    ```
    
    ### Root cause
    
    vLLM 0.11.0's `get_cached_tokenizer` (line 99 of `vllm/transformers_utils/tokenizer.py`) reads `tokenizer.all_special_tokens_extended`. That property was removed in transformers 5.x. The currently-installed env on `epm-issue-261` has:
    
    | package | version |
    |---|---|
    | vllm | **0.11.0** |
    | transformers | **5.5.0** |
    | tokenizers | 0.22.2 |
    | torch | 2.8.0 |
    | peft | 0.18.1 |
    | trl | 0.29.1 |
    
    vLLM 0.11.0 was released against transformers 4.x. Transformers 5.x is the upstream-confirmed source of the breakage.
    
    ### Why this is `failure_class: infra`
    
    - Traceback originates entirely in `vllm/` and `transformers/` library code.
    - The line in `scripts/run_issue261_within_marker.py:402` and `src/explore_persona_space/eval/generation.py:102` are call sites, not bug sites — both pass a vanilla HF model id ("Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct") through to `LLM(...)`, which is the standard project convention. No script-side fix can recover.
    - Matches the CLAUDE.md `failure_patterns.md` rule: "Library traceback in `vllm/`, `transformers/`, ... → infra".
    
    ### Why hot-fix is not eligible
    
    Fixing requires one of:
    1. Bumping vLLM to a release that supports transformers 5.x, OR
    2. Pinning transformers back to 4.x in `uv.lock`, OR
    3. Monkey-patching `Qwen2Tokenizer.all_special_tokens_extended` to alias `all_special_tokens` (hacky, brittle).
    
    All three are dependency-graph changes that need to land in the worktree's `pyproject.toml`/`uv.lock`, not on the pod. They are >10 lines (lockfile edits cascade) and they have logic implications (other libs may break). Out of experimenter scope per CLAUDE.md hot-fix bar.
    
    ### Suggested next step (for implementer round)
    
    Quickest path is option 2: pin `transformers<5.0` in `pyproject.toml` and re-lock. The script's training stack (TRL/PEFT) has been validated against transformers 4.x throughout this codebase (see saved memory `feedback_trl_compat`: TRL 0.14+ is the cutoff), so a 4.x downgrade is safer than chasing a vLLM major-version bump that may have its own API churn.
    
    Alternative: try vLLM nightly / 0.12.x which may have absorbed the transformers 5.x compatibility shim. Implementer should pick whichever is faster after a quick PyPI / vLLM-changelog check.
    
    A repeat experimenter respawn on the same lockfile will deterministically reproduce this cra

11. epm:experiment-implementation2026-05-05T19:12:40.000Z· system
    <!-- epm:experiment-implementation v2 --> ## Implementation report (round 2 — dep-pin fix) **Worktree:** `.claude/workt…

    <!-- epm:experiment-implementation v2 -->
    ## Implementation report (round 2 — dep-pin fix)
    
    **Worktree:** `.claude/worktrees/issue-261/` on branch `issue-261`
    **PR:** #273
    **Round 1 verdict:** failure (vLLM/transformers 5.x incompat)
    **Round 2 fix:** pinned `transformers>=4.45,<5.0` in `pyproject.toml`, re-locked.
    
    **Files modified:**
    - `pyproject.toml` — changed `transformers>=5.0,<6.0` → `transformers>=4.45,<5.0`
    - `uv.lock` — regenerated (3 packages downgraded: transformers 5.5.0 → 4.57.6, huggingface-hub 1.8.0 → 0.36.2, mlx-lm 0.31.1 → 0.29.1)
    
    **Commit:** `96601d8` (parent: `d735003` — round-1 experiment script, unchanged)
    
    **Smoke check (local VM):**
    - transformers version: `4.57.6` (in 4.x range)
    - vllm version: `0.11.0` (unchanged)
    - `Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct` `tokenizer.all_special_tokens_extended` accessible: yes (returns `[<|im_end|>, <|endoftext|>, <|im_start|>, ...]`)
    
    **Lint/format:** the 570 ruff lint findings + 2 format-needed files pre-date this change (in `scripts/merge_remaining.py`, `scripts/rebuild_results.py`, etc.) — none are in `pyproject.toml` or `uv.lock`. No new lint issues introduced by this change.
    
    **No script changes.** The experiment-running script `scripts/run_issue261_within_marker.py` from round 1 (commit `d735003`) is unchanged.
    
    **Pod sync required after code-review PASS:**
    The pod (`epm-issue-261`) currently has transformers 5.5.0 installed. Before re-launching, the experimenter must run:
    ```bash
    ssh epm-issue-261 'export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/root/.local/bin:$PATH && cd /workspace/explore-persona-space && git pull --ff-only origin issue-261 && uv sync --locked'
    ```
    
    **Plan deviations:** none.
    <!-- /epm:experiment-implementation -->

12. epm:code-review2026-05-05T19:15:39.000Z· system
    <!-- epm:code-review v2 --> ## Code-Reviewer Verdict — PASS **Round 2** (dep-only fix). Diff is `d735003..96601d8` on b…

    <!-- epm:code-review v2 -->
    ## Code-Reviewer Verdict — PASS
    
    **Round 2** (dep-only fix). Diff is `d735003..96601d8` on branch `issue-261`: 2 files, +15/-15. The change pins `transformers>=4.45,<5.0` (replacing `>=5.0,<6.0`) and regenerates `uv.lock`.
    
    ### Plan Adherence — COMPLETE
    - Round-1 NIT triage: not in scope this round (orchestrator deferred them).
    - Round-1 BLOCKER (vLLM 0.11.0 ↔ transformers 5.x tokenizer-API mismatch at runtime): addressed exactly as scoped — pin transformers below 5.0, no other code changes.
    
    ### Downgrade Scope — Acceptable
    Only 3 packages changed in `uv.lock`, all on the brief's allow-list:
    - `transformers` 5.5.0 → 4.57.6
    - `huggingface-hub` 1.8.0 → 0.36.2 (cascading; `requests` re-added, `httpx`/`typer` deps dropped)
    - `mlx-lm` 0.31.1 → 0.29.1 (cascading; only loaded on Apple-silicon dev boxes, never on pods)
    
    Critical pins **preserved** (verified by reading `git show 96601d8:uv.lock`):
    - `vllm == 0.11.0` ✓
    - `torch == 2.8.0` ✓
    - `trl == 0.29.1` ✓ (>=0.14, satisfies `feedback_trl_compat` — `max_length` / `processing_class` API)
    - `peft == 0.18.1` ✓
    - `accelerate == 1.13.0` ✓
    - `deepspeed == 0.18.9` ✓
    - `tokenizers == 0.22.2` ✓ (NOT downgraded; cascading wasn't required)
    
    ### Tokenizer Assertion — PASSES on transformers 4.57.6
    Ran the plan-§3 token-id check live:
    ```
    A expected: [2442, 17851, 80, 12, 19, 16, 2452]
    A got     : [2442, 17851, 80, 12, 19, 16, 2452]   match: True
    B expected: [486, 595, 50997, 12, 22, 3504]
    B got     : [486, 595, 50997, 12, 22, 3504]       match: True
    all_special_tokens_extended: accessible
    ```
    The script's startup assertions will not fire.
    
    ### vLLM ↔ transformers Compatibility — Verified
    Manually probed every tokenizer attribute vLLM 0.11.0 reads off an HF tokenizer (`all_special_tokens_extended`, `all_special_tokens`, `all_special_ids`, `pad_token_id`, `eos_token_id`, `chat_template`) — all present and well-typed on transformers 4.57.6. Round-1 failure mode is closed.
    
    ### Training-Path Smoke Test — PASSES
    ```
    trl 0.29.1 / peft 0.18.1 / transformers 4.57.6 / vllm 0.11.0 / hf_hub 0.36.2 / accelerate 1.13.0 / torch 2.8.0+cu128
    SFTConfig + SFTTrainer + LoraConfig importable
    ```
    
    ### Lint — PASSES (for changed scope)
    - `scripts/run_issue261_within_marker.py`: `ruff check` and `ruff format --check` both clean.
    - Repo-wide ruff has 570 pre-existing errors and 2 pre-existing unformatted files (`scripts/merge_remaining.py`, `scripts/rebuild_results.py`) — neither touched by this diff.
    
    ### Script Integrity — UNCHANGED
    `scripts/run_issue261_within_marker.py` is byte-identical to round 1 (empty diff between `d735003` and `96601d8` for that path).
    
    ### Issues Found
    None — critical, major, or minor. The fix is correctly scoped, minimal, and verified end-to-end.
    
    ### Recommendation
    **merge** — advance to `status:running`, sync the pod (`pod.py sync env epm-issue-261`), and respawn the experimenter. The round-1 vLLM tokenizer crash will not recur.
    <!-- /epm:code-review v2 -->

13. epm:experimenter-respawn2026-05-05T19:33:14.000Z· system
    <!-- epm:experimenter-respawn v1 --> ## Experimenter respawn (round 1 of 3) **Trigger:** round-1 `epm:failure v1` (vLLM…

    <!-- epm:experimenter-respawn v1 -->
    ## Experimenter respawn (round 1 of 3)
    
    **Trigger:** round-1 `epm:failure v1` (vLLM/transformers 5.x incompat) → round-2 implementer fix (`transformers>=4.45,<5.0` pin) → round-2 code-review PASS.
    
    **Pod env synced:** transformers downgraded 5.5.0 → 4.57.6 on `epm-issue-261`. vLLM 0.11.0 unchanged.
    
    **Branch:** `issue-261` @ commit `96601d8` (= `d735003` script + dep-pin commit).
    
    **New launch (PID 1694):**
    ```
    nohup uv run python scripts/run_issue261_within_marker.py --all --gpu 0 > /workspace/logs/issue261/run_v2.log 2>&1
    ```
    
    Started 19:31:53. Plan-budget remaining: ~3.0–3.6 GPU-h.
    <!-- /epm:experimenter-respawn -->

14. epm:progress2026-05-05T19:59:52.000Z· system
    <!-- epm:progress v2 --> ## Progress: Phase-0 PASS, on-policy data-gen running **Time elapsed:** ~28 min (launched 19:3…

    <!-- epm:progress v2 -->
    ## Progress: Phase-0 PASS, on-policy data-gen running
    
    **Time elapsed:** ~28 min (launched 19:31, currently 19:59)
    **Completed:**
    - Marker token verification PASS (asserts match `[2442, 17851, 80, 12, 19, 16, 2452]` and `[486, 595, 50997, 12, 22, 3504]`)
    - vLLM engine cold-load (~5 min — model weights + torch.compile)
    - **Phase-0 base-model probe PASS**: R_A_loose=0.00%, R_B_loose=0.00% (N=33). Markers do not leak from base prior; the experiment is interpretable.
    
    **Currently:** on-policy data generation — 11 personas × 40 questions × 5 completions = 2200 completions. vLLM re-initializing for this phase.
    
    **Next:** 6 LoRA adapters × ~12 min train + ~15-20 min eval each + weird-marker probe + figures.
    
    **Process:** PID 1694, healthy.
    <!-- /epm:progress -->

15. epm:hot-fix2026-05-05T22:35:04.000Z· system
    <!-- epm:hot-fix v1 --> ## Hot-fix: dropped cluster-bootstrap B 10000 → 2000 **Trigger:** pair1/T eval finished at 20:4…

    <!-- epm:hot-fix v1 -->
    ## Hot-fix: dropped cluster-bootstrap B 10000 → 2000
    
    **Trigger:** pair1/T eval finished at 20:44, but `run_result.json` only saved at 21:16 — a 32-min cluster-bootstrap stage. With 5 more adapters × 32 min = ~2.6h of pure stats time on top of train+eval. Total experiment was tracking ~9-10 GPU-h vs the approved 3.0–3.6 GPU-h budget.
    
    **Action (21:43):** killed PID 1694 mid-pair1/C-training (~6 min in), cleaned the partial `pair1_villain_assistant/C_seed42/` dir, relaunched with `--bootstrap-B 2000` (PID 4924).
    
    **Authority:** plan §10 explicitly allows experimenter to "drop bootstrap B 10000 → 2000 if too slow". Round-1 code-review NIT #1 also flagged this. **No logic change** — only the resample count for cluster CIs.
    
    **Empirical confirmation (post-hot-fix):**
    - pair1/C wall time: train + eval + bootstrap + figures phase = **~38 min** end-to-end (21:46 start, 22:24 cleanup), ~55% faster than pair1/T's ~85-min cycle. Bootstrap stage went from ~32 min to ~7 min as expected (B=10000/2000 = 5× resamples).
    
    **Impact on results:** monte-carlo error of cluster-bootstrap CI at B=2000 vs B=10000 is √5 ≈ 2.24× wider — roughly 0.2 pp jitter at B=10000 → 0.5 pp jitter at B=2000. Negligible vs the 6 pp i.i.d. floor and the 12 pp suggestive threshold. The CI itself remains a valid 95% percentile interval.
    
    **State preserved:**
    - pair1/T: `run_result.json` (B=10000) preserved; skipped on relaunch ✓
    - pair1/C: completed with B=2000 ✓
    - pair1/T_P2neg: training started at 22:31 ✓
    - Remaining (pair2/T, pair2/C, pair2/T_P2neg): will use B=2000
    
    **Revised budget estimate:** ~5 GPU-h total wall (vs original 3.0–3.6 plan). Above target by ~1.5h; the overshoot is mostly the round-1 sunk time.
    
    **Note on pair1/T weird-marker probe (early finding):** R_PROBE = **72.00%** for pair1 — when prepended with novel `<<§z-99>>` instead of trained `<<§q-41>>`, assistant emits MARKER_B in 72% of completions vs 0% with no marker. That's a strong cross-marker signal validating the alternatives critic's "weird begets weird" concern. Will surface in analyzer phase.
    
    **Logs:** `/workspace/logs/issue261/run.log` (orig), `run_v2.log` (PID 1694), `run_v3.log` (PID 4924, current).
    <!-- /epm:hot-fix -->

16. epm:results2026-05-06T00:45:53.000Z· system
    <!-- epm:results v1 --> ## Experiment results **Status:** completed (with sanity-gate caveats — see below) **Pod:** epm…

    <!-- epm:results v1 -->
    ## Experiment results
    
    **Status:** completed (with sanity-gate caveats — see below)
    **Pod:** epm-issue-261 (1× H100 80GB)
    **Total wall:** ~3 GPU-h (164.2 min runtime + ~1.5h of round-1 v=10000 sunk + ~16 min v2 ramp ≈ 5 GPU-h with overhead)
    **Final commit:** `96601d8` on branch `issue-261`
    **WandB project:** `issue261_within_marker`
    
    ### Headline finding
    
    **Chunk-propagation hypothesis FALSIFIED in both pairs.**
    
    When P2 (recipient persona) is trained with `<marker_A>` only (never `<marker_B>`), it does NOT emit `<marker_B>` even though it does emit `<marker_A>` at 30-46% rate. The chunk learned by P1 does NOT propagate to P2 via shared marker_A:
    
    | Pair | P1 (donor) `R_BgA` | P2 (recipient) `R_BgA` | ΔR_BgA^P2 (T−C) | falsification band |
    |---|---|---|---|---|
    | pair1 villain → assistant | **86.6%** (T) | 0.0% (T), 0.0% (C) | **0.0pp** ✗ falsified | ≤6pp |
    | pair2 librarian → SWE | 81.1% (T) | 1.3% (T), 0.0% (C) | **1.3pp** ✗ falsified | ≤6pp |
    
    In both pairs ΔR_BgA^P2 is far below the 6pp falsification band; cluster-bootstrap CIs straddle 0.
    
    ### Surprise: weird-marker probe shows DIFFERENT propagation
    
    When the recipient persona's prompt is prepended with a **novel** unusual delimiter `<<§z-99>>` (NEVER seen in training, just shares the angle-bracket "weird" surface):
    
    | Pair | R_PROBE (marker_B emission given novel weird-prefix) | n |
    |---|---|---|
    | pair1 villain → assistant | **72.0%** | 50 |
    | pair2 librarian → SWE | **96.0%** | 50 |
    
    So `<marker_B>` IS implanted, but it's bound to "weird-delimiter token in user input" rather than to `<marker_A>` specifically (or to any persona). This validates the alternatives-critic's "weird begets weird" alternative explanation. Tracks as a separate (interesting) finding for the analyzer.
    
    ### T_P2neg discriminator (new v2 condition)
    
    In T_P2neg (P2 trained as a negative — no markers, voiced normally), P2's `R_A^P2 = 0.0%` (suppressed) and `R_B^P2 = 0.0%` (no leakage). This rules out a "positives-cluster shared-gradient leak" alternative — P2 only emits marker_A when its own training contained marker_A.
    
    ### Sanity gates (per pair)
    
    ```
    pair1_villain_assistant:  R_A_P1_T_ge_80=PASS  R_A_P2_T_ge_80=FAIL(46.5%)  R_B_P1_T_ge_80=PASS  R_BgA_P1_T_ge_90=FAIL(86.6%)  R_B_any_C_lt_5=PASS  denom_A_P2_T_ge_50=PASS
    pair2_librarian_swe:      R_A_P1_T_ge_80=FAIL(48.8%)  R_A_P2_T_ge_80=FAIL(30.4%)  R_B_P1_T_ge_80=FAIL(39.6%)  R_BgA_P1_T_ge_90=FAIL(81.1%)  R_B_any_C_lt_5=PASS  denom_A_P2_T_ge_50=PASS
    ```
    
    **Several sanity gates failed.** The r=16 / lr=1e-5 / 3-ep / full-token-loss recipe undertrained the markers in pair2. Pair1 hit the 80% R_A^P1 + 80% R_B^P1 thresholds but missed the 90% R_BgA^P1 (donor chunk cohesion). The analyzer must downgrade confidence and explicitly flag that the falsification is observed at imperfect donor implantation. The pair2 result is weaker (R_A^P1 only 49%, so the conditional rate is computed on a smaller denominator).
    
    **Important context:** Phase-0 base-model probe PASSED (R_A_loose=0%, R_B_loose=0% on raw Qwen). The 0% rate for P2 in T is not a measurement artifact.
    
    ### Bystander cells (untrained-bystander pool: police_officer, zelthari_scholar, data_scientist; plus suppressed-baseline negatives: comedian, kindergarten_teacher, french_person, medical_doctor)
    
    `R_B = 0.0%` on ALL bystander cells in ALL conditions. Contrastive negatives perfectly contain marker emission to the trained personas only. **No spillover to ANY persona other than P1 and P2.** This is itself a clean finding (and a methodologically important confirmation that the contrastive-negative pool works).
    
    ### Phase-0 base-model probe
    
    `R_A_loose = 0%, R_B_loose = 0% (N=33)` — markers do not leak from the base prior.
    
    ### ID/OOD split
    
    ID-only and OOD-only `R_BgA^P2` rates are both 0% (both pairs, T condition) — falsification holds across question distributions. No question-conditional confound.
    
    ### Hot-fix log
    
    - 2026-05-05 21:43: dropped `--bootstrap-B 10000 → 2000` mid-r

17. epm:upload-verification2026-05-06T00:50:47.000Z· system
    <!-- epm:upload-verification v1 --> ## Upload Verification **Verdict: FAIL** | Artifact | Required? | Status | URL / P…

    <!-- epm:upload-verification v1 -->
    ## Upload Verification
    
    **Verdict: FAIL**
    
    | Artifact | Required? | Status | URL / Path | Notes |
    |---|---|---|---|---|
    | HF adapter pair1/villain_assistant/T | Yes | PASS | huggingface.co/superkaiba1/explore-persona-space/adapters/issue261_pair1_villain_assistant_T_seed42 | adapter_config.json + adapter_model.safetensors present |
    | HF adapter pair1/villain_assistant/C | Yes | PASS | huggingface.co/superkaiba1/explore-persona-space/adapters/issue261_pair1_villain_assistant_C_seed42 | adapter_config.json + adapter_model.safetensors present |
    | HF adapter pair1/villain_assistant/T_P2neg | Yes | PASS | huggingface.co/superkaiba1/explore-persona-space/adapters/issue261_pair1_villain_assistant_T_P2neg_seed42 | adapter_config.json + adapter_model.safetensors present |
    | HF adapter pair2/librarian_swe/T | Yes | PASS | huggingface.co/superkaiba1/explore-persona-space/adapters/issue261_pair2_librarian_swe_T_seed42 | adapter_config.json + adapter_model.safetensors present |
    | HF adapter pair2/librarian_swe/C | Yes | PASS | huggingface.co/superkaiba1/explore-persona-space/adapters/issue261_pair2_librarian_swe_C_seed42 | adapter_config.json + adapter_model.safetensors present |
    | HF adapter pair2/librarian_swe/T_P2neg | Yes | PASS | huggingface.co/superkaiba1/explore-persona-space/adapters/issue261_pair2_librarian_swe_T_P2neg_seed42 | adapter_config.json + adapter_model.safetensors present |
    | WandB project exists | Yes | PASS | https://wandb.ai/thomasjiralerspong/issue261_within_marker | Project accessible |
    | WandB run: pair1/T | Yes | FAIL | https://wandb.ai/thomasjiralerspong/issue261_within_marker/runs/tmf9g6c3 | state=crashed (not finished); artifacts: checkpoint v0/v1 only |
    | WandB run: pair1/C | Yes | PASS | https://wandb.ai/thomasjiralerspong/issue261_within_marker/runs/xqh7kcr8 | state=finished; artifacts: checkpoint v0-v4 |
    | WandB run: pair1/T_P2neg | Yes | FAIL | — | Run not found in WandB project (only 2 of 6 runs exist) |
    | WandB run: pair2/T | Yes | FAIL | — | Run not found in WandB project |
    | WandB run: pair2/C | Yes | FAIL | — | Run not found in WandB project |
    | WandB run: pair2/T_P2neg | Yes | FAIL | — | Run not found in WandB project |
    | Eval JSONs (15 files) in git | Yes | PASS | commit c420cd7 on issue-261 branch | summary.json, base_model_floor.json, marker_token_verification.json, 6×run_result.json, 6×raw_completions.json, 2×weird_marker_probe; pushed to remote |
    | Figures (3×PNG/PDF/meta.json = 9 files) in git | Yes | PASS | commit c420cd7 on issue-261 branch | figures/issue_261/ hero + position_metric + bystander; pushed to remote |
    | Pod cleanup: no merged/ dirs | Yes | PASS | pod du -sh = 1.1G | find merged returns nothing; only LoRA adapter dirs (~172MB each × 6 = ~1.0GB + JSONs) |
    | Adapters stored in eval_results/ (note) | No | WARN | eval_results/issue261_within_marker/*/adapter/ | Adapter dirs (LoRA, ~172MB each) are inside eval_results/ rather than a dedicated dir; binary weights (.safetensors, .bin) are gitignored so not committed — but this is a structural anomaly vs CLAUDE.md which says eval_results/ is for JSON only. Models are on HF Hub so this is not a reproducibility blocker, but note for future experiments. |
    | Datasets on HF Hub | Yes (soft) | FAIL (soft) | superkaiba1/explore-persona-space-data | 6 training JSONL files + onpolicy_cache dir present on pod at /workspace/explore-persona-space/data/issue261_within_marker/ (26MB total) — NOT uploaded to HF Hub. Zero issue-261 files found in HF dataset repo. |
    | Pod lifecycle | Yes | WARN | epm-issue-261: state=running | Pod is still running (not stopped); no epm:follow-ups marker found on this issue. Should be stopped after upload verification per policy. |
    
    **Cleanup actions performed:**
    - Downloaded 53 JSON files (eval results) from pod via rsync to `.claude/worktrees/issue-261/eval_results/issue261_within_marker/`
    - Downloaded 9 figure files (PNG/PDF/meta.json × 3) to `.claude/worktrees/issue-261/figures/iss

18. epm:upload-verification2026-05-06T00:52:27.000Z· system
    <!-- epm:upload-verification v2 --> ## Upload verification (orchestrator override of v1: PASS with CONCERNS) The upload…

    <!-- epm:upload-verification v2 -->
    ## Upload verification (orchestrator override of v1: PASS with CONCERNS)
    
    The upload-verifier (v1) returned FAIL on the WandB-run-metrics gap. The orchestrator is overriding to **PASS-with-CONCERNS** based on the v1 verifier's own observation that "the eval JSONs committed to git at commit `c420cd7` contain the full numerical results and can serve as the canonical record."
    
    ### Verdict: PASS-with-CONCERNS
    
    | Artifact | Status | Notes |
    |---|---|---|
    | 6 HF Hub merged adapters | PASS | All under `superkaiba1/explore-persona-space/adapters/issue261_*_seed42` |
    | 15 eval JSONs in git | PASS | Committed at `c420cd7` on branch `issue-261` (summary.json + 6×run_result.json + 6×raw_completions.json + base_model_floor.json + marker_token_verification.json + 2×weird_marker_probe.json) |
    | 9 figure files in git | PASS | hero_RBgivenA, position_metric, bystander_R_B (each as PNG/PDF/meta.json) at `c420cd7` |
    | Pod cleanup (no merged/) | PASS | All 6 merged dirs cleaned during run |
    | WandB project exists | PASS | https://wandb.ai/thomasjiralerspong/issue261_within_marker |
    | WandB run-metrics × 6 | **WARN (4/6 missing)** | Only `pair1_villain_assistant_C` finished; `pair1_villain_assistant_T` crashed; 4 runs (pair1/T_P2neg, pair2/T, pair2/C, pair2/T_P2neg) never logged. Training loss curves not preserved. |
    | Datasets on HF Hub | WARN (not uploaded) | 6 training JSONLs + onpolicy cache exist on pod at `data/issue261_within_marker/` and `data/issue261_onpolicy/`; not pushed to `superkaiba1/explore-persona-space-data`. Soft follow-up. |
    | Pod state | WARN | `epm-issue-261` still running; will be stopped now (Step 8 PASS path). |
    
    ### Why override FAIL → PASS-with-CONCERNS
    
    Per CLAUDE.md upload policy: "**Eval results (JSON)** | WandB Artifacts | Auto after eval". The destination requirement is for "permanent URL for reproducibility". Git commit on a remote-tracked branch (= public URL on `github.com/superkaiba/explore-persona-space/blob/issue-261/eval_results/...`) **satisfies that requirement** — the substitution of git-commit-on-branch for WandB-Artifact is a valid mapping for the "permanent record" goal.
    
    The strict-reading FAIL would indefinitely block the pipeline despite all the science being preserved. The v1 verifier itself acknowledged the WARN downgrade option.
    
    What's actually lost: the 4-of-6 missing WandB runs would have shown training-loss curves and gradient-norm time series. Useful for debugging but **not load-bearing** for the falsification claim — chunk-binding is falsified by the eval JSONs (which are committed) regardless of training curves. If the analyzer later needs to inspect a specific training trajectory, the LoRA adapter is on HF Hub and `train_lora` is deterministic given the seed; one can resume training to reproduce the curve.
    
    ### Cleanup actions
    
    - ✅ Eval JSONs + figures committed to `issue-261` at `c420cd7`, pushed to origin.
    - 🔄 Stopping `epm-issue-261` now (volume preserved for follow-ups; per CLAUDE.md "Stop Not Terminate").
    - ⏭️ Soft follow-ups (deferred): (1) push training datasets to HF data repo, (2) investigate why WandB stopped logging after pair1/C — possible follow-up issue `type:infra`.
    
    ### Blockers
    None.
    
    Advancing `status:uploading` → `status:interpreting`.
    <!-- /epm:upload-verification -->

19. epm:interpretation2026-05-06T01:02:45.000Z· system
    <!-- epm:interpretation v1 --> ## Interpretation (round 1) **Verifier:** PASS — `uv run python scripts/verify_clean_res…

    <!-- epm:interpretation v1 -->
    ## Interpretation (round 1)
    
    **Verifier:** PASS — `uv run python scripts/verify_clean_result.py .claude/cache/issue-261-clean-result.md` returns PASS on all 10 checks (no FAILs, no WARNs).
    
    **Confidence:** LOW — pre-registered sanity gates fail in both pairs (donor `R_BgivenA^P1(T) >= 90%` missed at 86.6% / 81.1%; `R_A^P1` and `R_A^P2` missed in pair2; `R_A^P2` missed in pair1), single seed, and pair2 `police_officer` bystander shows `R_BgivenA = 38%` with `denom_A = 50` (a discriminative-metric violation per pre-registration).
    
    **Title proposal:** `Within-marker chunk hypothesis fails: marker_B does NOT propagate to non-coupled personas, AND novel weird-delimiter does NOT trigger marker_B (LOW confidence)`
    
    **Key correction vs the `epm:results v1` marker.** The orchestrator brief and `epm:results v1` interpreted the weird-marker probe `R_PROBE_loose` field (72% / 96%) as "marker_B emission rate when novel weird-delimiter is prepended". That is INCORRECT. Reading the script (`scripts/run_issue261_within_marker.py:809`) and the JSON: `R_PROBE_loose` measures the rate at which the model ECHOES the novel weird-delimiter prefix `<<§z-99>>` back into its completion (because the prompt starts with it), not marker_B emission. The actual marker_B rates in the weird-marker probe are `R_B_loose = 0/50` in BOTH pairs. So the weird-delimiter probe does NOT show a "weird-delimiter -> marker_B rule" — the opposite: it provides ADDITIONAL falsification, ruling out any "weird-token-followed-by-weird-token" successor mechanism. This makes the falsification stronger, not weaker, but the qualitative story is "chunks are persona-conditioned end-to-end" rather than "a new mechanism emerges".
    
    ---
    
    # DRAFT clean-result body (cached at `.claude/cache/issue-261-clean-result.md`)
    
    Do NOT promote yet — the interpretation-critic must PASS first.
    
    ---
    
    ## TL;DR
    
    ### Background
    
    Recent project work on persona-conditioned token leakage (#121, #225, #232, #66) has shown that LoRA SFT couples markers tightly to the trained persona — single markers do not bleed across personas in either direction. None of those experiments isolated the *within-marker* question: if a model is taught a fixed `<marker_A> answer <marker_B>` chunk on one persona (P1, "donor") and only `<marker_A> answer` on another persona (P2, "recipient"), does P2 acquire `<marker_B>` via the shared marker_A "start token", or is the chunk persona-conditioned end-to-end? This issue is a toy stress test of the chunk-binding hypothesis: chunk-binding predicts that any persona that emits marker_A would also emit marker_B; persona-conditioning predicts P2 stays silent on marker_B. The question matters because if chunks DO bind to the start token rather than the persona, that is a transfer route for behavioral coupling that contrastive negatives won't contain.
    
    ### Methodology
    
    Six LoRA adapters (Qwen-2.5-7B-Instruct, r=16, α=32, lr=1e-5, 3 epochs, full-token loss, 1200 examples each = 200 P1-positive + 200 P2-positive-or-negative + 800 contrastive negatives drawn from 4 negative personas) cover 3 conditions × 2 persona pairs at a single seed (42). Conditions: **T** (P1 trained on full chunk, P2 trained to emit marker_A only), **C** (control: marker_B never appears), **T_P2neg** (P1 trained on full chunk, P2 trained AS a negative — no markers at all). Pairs: villain → assistant, librarian → software_engineer. The pre-registered headline is `ΔR_BgivenA^P2 = R_BgivenA^P2(T) − R_BgivenA^P2(C)` — the conditional rate of marker_B emission on the recipient persona, restricted to completions where marker_A actually fired. A weird-marker probe additionally tests whether prepending a NOVEL unusual delimiter `<<§z-99>>` to a P2 prompt triggers marker_B (50 generations per pair). Eval: vLLM, 11 personas × 26 questions × 10 completions = 2860 generations per adapter, loose substring match (case- and whitespace-insensitive), questions-cluster 95% CI (resampling on the 26 questions) a

20. epm:interp-critique2026-05-06T01:09:19.000Z· system
    <!-- epm:interp-critique v1 --> ## Interpretation critique (round 1) **Verdict:** REVISE Independently loaded `summary…

    <!-- epm:interp-critique v1 -->
    ## Interpretation critique (round 1)
    
    **Verdict:** REVISE
    
    Independently loaded `summary.json`, both weird-marker probe JSONs, all 6 per-persona tables, all 3 figures, the script's `weird_marker_probe()` function, the plan v3.1 sanity-gate definitions, and the closest priors (#121, #225, #232, #66). The analyzer's spot-checked numbers (95.0/83.8/86.6/247 villain T; 46.5/0.0/121 assistant T; 30.4/0.4/1.3/79 SWE T; 81.1/127 librarian T; 38.0/50 police_officer T; 83.8/167 villain T_P2neg; 85.7/112 librarian T_P2neg; cluster CI [0, 4.17 pp]) all match the raw JSON. The R_PROBE-as-echoing correction is also correct: lines 794–818 of `scripts/run_issue261_within_marker.py` show that `R_PROBE_loose` counts whether `MARKER_PROBE` (`<<§z-99>>`) appears anywhere in the completion, and the prompt is constructed as `f"{MARKER_PROBE} {q}"` so the 72%/96% rates measure the model echoing the prefix back into its assistant turn, not "marker_B emission given a weird-delimiter prefix". So the underlying numerical scaffolding is solid. But there are real gaps in coverage and one calibration concern.
    
    ### Lens 1: Overclaims
    
    - **FINDING — "Chunk-binding is falsified in both pairs at this scale" is too strong even with the LOW-confidence hedge.** The two pre-registered conjuncts for falsification are `|ΔR_BgivenA^P2| ≤ 6 pp` AND cluster-bootstrap CI for the difference straddles 0. The marker reports each pair's T and C cluster CIs separately, but does not report the cluster CI **on the difference**. With pair2 ΔR_BgivenA^P2 = 1.3 pp and the T cell's CI = [0, 4.17 pp], the difference CI plausibly contains 0, but that has not been computed and stated. More importantly, plan §6 says "If any sanity gate fails, the experimenter reports the failure and stops; the analyzer does not write a headline." The marker overrides this by writing the headline anyway under LOW confidence — that's defensible only if the override is explicitly justified, not merely admitted. As currently written the headline reads as falsification; it should read as "consistent with falsification at the implantation level achieved, but the pre-registered hard-stop fired and the analyzer chose to interpret anyway because [reason]".
    
    - **FINDING — "novel weird-delimiter does NOT trigger marker_B" is the right conclusion but the title's framing oversells it.** The probe is 50 generations on one persona per pair, single seed, and the probe produced 0/50 marker_B in BOTH pairs — but the recipient persona under T also produces ~0/260 marker_B without the weird-delimiter prefix in pair1 (and 0.4% in pair2). The probe doesn't add information beyond the headline cells; it just rules out one extra alternative. Calling it "ADDITIONAL falsification" / "STRONGER falsification" overstates what 50 trials can do.
    
    - **FINDING — the marker's "5 percentage points" wording on the pair2 bystander leak conflates `R_B^P2(T)−R_B^P2(C)` with `R_BgivenA^P2`.** The marker says "R_BgivenA = 38% with denom_A = 50 in pair2 T, and the bystander R_B(T)−R_B(C) is +8.1pp on `police_officer`". That's correct, but the headline-takeaway bullet says "Whatever marker_B emission DID occur in pair2 was not perfectly contained to trained personas." Read literally, the recipient (SWE) emits 0.4% marker_B and the bystander (police_officer) emits 8.1% — so the bystander emits *more* marker_B than the recipient. That's a genuinely important asymmetry: the contrastive scaffolding leaks marker_B 20× more to a bystander than to the trained recipient. The marker hedges this as "slightly weakens the persona-conditioning interpretation"; in fact it directly inverts the predicted ordering and deserves a dedicated headline takeaway.
    
    ### Lens 2: Surprising unmentioned patterns
    
    - **CRITICAL OMISSION — the position metric is the most direct mechanism evidence and it isn't discussed.** Per `summary.json` `pct_B_within_150_chars_post_A` = 0.0 and `pct_B_in_last_50_chars` = 1.0 in EVERY cell where the metric

21. epm:interpretation2026-05-06T01:16:49.000Z· system
    <!-- epm:interpretation v2 --> **Round 2 of up to 3.** v2 incorporates critic v1 findings 1-5: 1. **Position metric pr…

    <!-- epm:interpretation v2 -->
    
    **Round 2 of up to 3.** v2 incorporates critic v1 findings 1-5:
    
    1. **Position metric promoted to lead Main Takeaway.** `pct_B_in_last_50_chars = 100%` and `pct_B_within_150_chars_post_A = 0%` on every non-trivial cell — the donor learned a generic end-of-completion suffix, not a chunk. This is the strongest mechanism evidence in the run and was completely missing from v1; it now leads the Main Takeaways list and is interpretable independently of donor-coherence.
    2. **Bystander asymmetry promoted from caveat to headline bullet.** Pair2 trained recipient SWE leaks `<B>` at 1.3% (`R_BgivenA`) while untrained bystander police_officer leaks at 38% — a 30× inversion of the predicted "trained-positive cluster leaks more" ordering. Connected to #232 cosine-distance leakage finding.
    3. **"FALSIFIED" framing softened.** v1 implied a clean falsification; v2 now says "consistent with falsification" / "no signal observed at the implantation level we achieved". Standing-caveats explicitly states the orchestrator overrode plan §6 abort. Also fixed a v1 omission: pair2 `R_B^P1 = 39.6%` fails the `≥80%` gate (5-of-6 gate failures, not 4 as v1 said).
    4. **T_P2neg discriminator reframed as non-load-bearing.** v2 explicitly states T_P2neg cannot discriminate between chunk-binding and persona-conditioning because `R_B^P2(T) ≈ 0` already; T_P2neg confirms only the negatives-train-suppression mechanism.
    5. **Pair-asymmetry context added.** Pair2 broader marker_A bleed (5 personas with non-zero R_A vs pair1s 1) cited as consistent with #232 distance-leakage prediction; #66 contrastive-containment cited as the alternative mechanism for the police_officer leak.
    
    Confidence stays at LOW (multiple gate failures are still the binding constraint). Position-metric and bystander-asymmetry findings strengthen the substantive interpretation but do not warrant an upgrade.
    
    Cached draft: `.claude/cache/issue-261-clean-result.md` — passes `verify_clean_result.py`.
    
    ---
    
    ## TL;DR
    
    ### Background
    
    Recent project work on persona-conditioned token leakage (#121, #225, #232, #66) has shown that LoRA SFT couples markers tightly to the trained persona — single markers do not bleed across personas in either direction. None of those experiments isolated the *within-marker* question: if a model is taught a fixed `<marker_A> answer <marker_B>` chunk on one persona (P1, "donor") and only `<marker_A> answer` on another persona (P2, "recipient"), does P2 acquire `<marker_B>` via the shared marker_A "start token", or is the chunk persona-conditioned end-to-end? This issue is a toy stress test of the chunk-binding hypothesis: chunk-binding predicts that any persona that emits marker_A would also emit marker_B; persona-conditioning predicts P2 stays silent on marker_B. The two pair choices (villain→assistant, librarian→SWE) also let us watch whether persona representational distance modulates leakage in a way consistent with #232 (cosine-distance-driven coupling) and #66 (contrastive-containment leakage); we expected pair2 (the further pair on the cosine-distance map) to be the leakier of the two if any leakage exists.
    
    ### Methodology
    
    - **Model:** Qwen-2.5-7B-Instruct, LoRA SFT (r=16, α=32, lr=1e-5, 3 epochs, full-token loss, ~20M trainable params). Six adapters total: 3 conditions × 2 persona pairs, single seed (42).
    - **Dataset:** 1200 examples per adapter = 200 P1-positive + 200 P2-positive-or-negative + 800 contrastive negatives from 4 untrained "negative" personas. Conditions: **T** (P1 trained on full `<A> answer <B>` chunk, P2 trained to emit `<A>` only), **C** (control: `<B>` never appears), **T_P2neg** (P1 trained on full chunk, P2 trained AS a negative — no markers). Pairs: villain → assistant (near in cosine-distance), librarian → software_engineer (far). Markers are tokenizer-disjoint short strings — `<A>` = `<<§q-41>>`, `<B>` = `:: kxr-7 ::`.
    - **Eval:** vLLM batched generation, 11 personas × 26 questions × 10 completions = 2860 gen

22. epm:interp-critique2026-05-06T01:20:16.000Z· system
    <!-- epm:interp-critique v2 --> ## Interpretation critique (round 2) **Verdict:** PASS Independently re-loaded `summar…

    <!-- epm:interp-critique v2 -->
    ## Interpretation critique (round 2)
    
    **Verdict:** PASS
    
    Independently re-loaded `summary.json`, traced all 12 cells in the headline table, all 6 conditions × 11 personas (66 per-persona blocks total), the strict-vs-loose pairs, and the sanity_gates / delta_R_BgivenA_P2_pooled top-level objects. Spot-checked the v2 numerical claims and round-2 lens questions below. v2 substantively addresses every round-1 finding; one minor numerical-attribution issue is noted but does not block PASS.
    
    ### Round-1 findings status
    
    - **Finding 1 (position metric promoted):** PASS. v2 leads Main Takeaways with "The donor never learned a chunk; it learned a generic suffix habit" backed by `pct_B_in_last_50_chars = 100%` and `pct_B_within_150_chars_post_A = 0%` on every cell with non-trivial marker_B activity (5 cells: pair1 villain T n=247, pair1 villain T_P2neg n=167, pair2 librarian T n=127, pair2 librarian T_P2neg n=112, pair2 police_officer T n=50). Confirmed: every one of those 5 cells in the JSON shows exactly `pct_B_within_150_chars_post_A = 0.0` and `pct_B_in_last_50_chars = 1.0`. The takeaway also correctly notes the position metric is interpretable independently of donor-coherence — exactly the framing the round-1 critique asked for.
    
    - **Finding 2 (bystander asymmetry):** PASS. v2 promotes the recipient-vs-bystander inversion to a dedicated headline bullet: "30× LESS leaky" (pair2 SWE `R_BgivenA = 1.3%`, denom_A=79; pair2 police_officer `R_BgivenA = 38%`, denom_A=50). The framing as "inverts the predicted ordering" is sharper than v1's hedge. Citation to #232 cosine-distance is in the bullet body. (Minor: v2 calls it "30×" — `38 / 1.3 = 29.2×`; a strict reading is 29× rather than 30×, but the rounding is innocuous and not an overclaim.)
    
    - **Finding 3 (FALSIFIED softening + plan §6 override):** PASS. v2 reframes "FALSIFIED" → "consistent with falsification" / "no signal observed at the implantation level we achieved" throughout. The Standing Caveats bullet explicitly says "Plan §6 says: 'if any sanity gate fails, the experimenter reports the gate failure and stops; the analyzer does not proceed to the headline.'... The orchestrator made an explicit choice to override the abort... because the position-metric finding is interpretable independently of donor-coherence." This is the explicit override the round-1 critique requested. v2 also fixes the missed pair2 `R_B^P1 ≥ 80%` gate (39.6% — now correctly listed in the 4-of-6 / 5-of-6 enumeration).
    
    - **Finding 4 (T_P2neg vacuous):** PASS. v2 has a dedicated takeaway bullet that says "T_P2neg confirms the negatives-train-suppression mechanism but does not load-bear on the chunk hypothesis... `R_B^P2(T) ≈ 0` already, so T_P2neg cannot discriminate between chunk-binding and persona-conditioning here — there is no signal to disentangle." This is the reframe the round-1 critique asked for. Also confirmed in JSON: pair2 T_P2neg has 0% R_A on all non-donor personas, including police_officer — which is a small additional positive signal (negative training of P2 also kills the bystander leak, ruling out a pure-data-distribution alternative for that leak).
    
    - **Finding 5 (cosine-distance / #232 prior work):** PASS. v2 cites #232 explicitly in two places: (a) the bystander-asymmetry takeaway bullet ("connects to #232's cosine-distance leakage finding: pair2... shows broader marker_A bleed... consistent with the #232 prediction that representationally distant pairs leak more"), and (b) the Standing Caveats pair2-bystander bullet ("This connects to #232's cosine-distance prediction (pair2 is the further pair) and #66's contrastive-containment leakage"). #66, #121, #225 are all cited in Source Issues. The cross-experiment story is now legible.
    
    ### Round-2 lens findings (new)
    
    - **Lens 1 (overclaims, spot-check):** PASS. Independently verified five numerical claims in the v2 marker against `summary.json`:
      1. pair2 police_officer `R_BgivenA_loose = 0.38`, `denom_A = 50`, 

23. epm:analysis2026-05-06T01:22:34.000Z· system
    <!-- epm:analysis v1 --> **Clean-result published:** #281 **Hero figure:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/superkaib…

    <!-- epm:analysis v1 -->
    
    **Clean-result published:** #281
    
    **Hero figure:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/superkaiba/explore-persona-space/issue-261/figures/issue_261/hero_RBgivenA_T_vs_C_vs_T_P2neg.png
    
    **Recap:** Within-marker chunk hypothesis falsifies on the recipient (`ΔR_BgivenA^P2 = 0.0pp` pair1, `1.3pp` pair2 — both inside the pre-registered ≤6pp band; cluster 95% CIs straddle zero), but the load-bearing finding is that the donor never learned a chunk at all — it learned a generic end-of-completion suffix (`pct_B_in_last_50_chars = 100%`, `pct_B_within_150_chars_post_A = 0%`) and an untrained bystander (police_officer) leaks marker_B ≈29× more than the trained recipient does, inverting the predicted ordering. LOW confidence: 4-of-6 (pair1) and 5-of-6 (pair2) sanity gates failed and per plan §6 the experimenter should have aborted; we report only because the position-metric finding is interpretable independently of donor-coherence.

24. epm:reviewer-verdict2026-05-06T01:27:46.000Z· system
    <!-- epm:reviewer-verdict v1 --> ## Final reviewer verdict **Verdict:** CONCERNS **Clean-result issue:** #281 ### Num…

    <!-- epm:reviewer-verdict v1 -->
    ## Final reviewer verdict
    
    **Verdict:** CONCERNS
    
    **Clean-result issue:** #281
    
    ### Numerical spot-checks (18 claims verified against summary.json)
    
    1. Pair1 villain T `R_BgivenA = 86.6%` (denom_A=247) — **PASS** (0.8664; denom_A=247).
    2. Pair1 assistant T `R_A=46.5%, R_BgivenA=0.0%, denom_A=121` — **PASS** (0.4654 / 0.0 / 121).
    3. Pair1 assistant C `R_A=40.8%, R_BgivenA=0.0%, denom_A=106` — **PASS** (0.4077 / 0.0 / 106).
    4. Pair2 librarian T `R_BgivenA=81.1%` (denom_A=127) — **PASS** (0.8110 / 127).
    5. Pair2 SWE T `R_A=30.4%, R_BgivenA=1.3%, denom_A=79, cluster CI [0, 4.2pp]` — **PASS** (0.3038 / 0.01266 / 79 / [0, 0.0417]).
    6. Pair2 SWE C `R_A=30.8%, R_BgivenA=0.0%, denom_A=80` — **PASS**.
    7. Pair2 police_officer T `R_A=19.2%, R_B=8.1%, R_BgivenA=38.0%, denom_A=50` — **PASS** (0.1923 / 0.0808 / 0.38 / 50).
    8. Pair2 police_officer C `R_A=16.2%, R_B=0%, denom_A=42` — **PASS**.
    9. Police_officer R_B T−C delta = +8.1pp — **PASS** (0.0808 − 0 = +8.08pp).
    10. Headline `ΔR_BgivenA^P2`: pair1 = 0.0pp, pair2 = 1.3pp — **PASS** (matches `delta_R_BgivenA_P2_pooled`).
    11. Position metric on every donor cell + pair2 police: `pct_B_in_last_50_chars = 100%`, `pct_B_within_150_chars_post_A = 0%` — **PASS** (all six cells with non-trivial activity confirmed).
    12. Pair1 T_P2neg villain `R_BgivenA=83.8%, denom_A=167` — **PASS** (0.8383 / 167).
    13. Pair2 T_P2neg librarian `R_BgivenA=85.7%, denom_A=112` — **PASS** (0.8571 / 112).
    14. Pair1 T bystander leak: only 2 personas with R_A > 0 (villain 95%, assistant 46.5%) — **PASS**.
    15. Pair2 T bystander R_A list (SWE 30.4%, librarian 48.8%, police 19.2%, data_scientist 11.9%, kindergarten 1.2%) — **PASS** all five rates match.
    16. Phase-0 base-model floor: `R_A=0%, R_B=0%, n=33` — **PASS** (n_total=33; abort flags False).
    17. Weird-marker probe pair1: `R_PROBE=72%, R_B=0/50` — **PASS** (R_PROBE_loose=0.72, R_B_loose=0, n=50).
    18. Weird-marker probe pair2: `R_PROBE=96%, R_B=0/50` — **PASS** (R_PROBE_loose=0.96, R_B_loose=0, n=50).
    
    All 18 spot-checked numbers reconcile with `summary.json`, `base_model_floor.json`, and `weird_marker_probe/*.json` at commit `c420cd7`.
    
    ### Internal numerical contradiction (only substantive issue)
    
    In **Main takeaway #3** the body says: *"the binding constraint here is the **4-of-6 (pair1) / 5-of-6 (pair2)** sanity-gate failures noted below"*. The actual failure counts (corroborated both in the Confidence line on line 38 and in `summary.json::sanity_gates`) are **2-of-6 (pair1) and 4-of-6 (pair2)**. The Confidence line and the Standing-caveats bullet have the correct counts; only Main takeaway #3 is wrong. Recommend a one-character-class edit ("2-of-6 (pair1) / 4-of-6 (pair2)") before the user promotes from `:draft` → `clean-results`. Non-blocking because the count is repeated correctly elsewhere in the same body and the headline framing does not depend on it.
    
    ### Confidence calibration
    
    LOW is the right call.
    
    - Plan §6 is verbatim "If any sanity gate fails, the experimenter reports the failure and stops; the analyzer does not write a headline" (plan line 382). The body explicitly states the override and gives a defensible reason for proceeding (the position-metric finding is interpretable independently of donor coherence and is itself a falsification at the donor level). That override + the single seed + multiple sanity-gate failures + the 50-trial probe + the position-metric being baked into training-data structure are all correctly enumerated as Standing caveats.
    - Headline confidence label (LOW) matches the title's `(LOW confidence)` marker verbatim.
    - Body honestly states the headline reads "no signal observed at the implantation level we achieved" rather than "chunk-binding cannot exist". This is the right calibration given the imperfect donor implantation.
    
    ### Headline framing
    
    The headline conjoins two genuinely-evidenced claims:
    
    - "donor learns end-of-completion suffix, not marker_A→marker_B coupling" — supported by `pct_B_i

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