ModelFarm · arnold-1.5b-neurons

Neuron-steering recipe persona package on Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct, produced by the Arnold Persona Lab persona-stack harness. Persona: Arnold Schwarzenegger.

What this is

A causal recipe of MLP neurons: facet engrams were aligned against W_down columns, top candidates were pushed at dose 1, and the strongest per facet ship at dose 0.5. Works only for the exact base checkpoint — neuron indices do not transfer.

Usage

pip install torch transformers
python farm_runtime.py . --chat          # or: python farm_runtime.py . "Who are you?"
python farm_runtime.py . --alpha 0.5 "Who are you?"   # dose override

Persona-stack measurements

identity	catch/100w	register	QA	neutral NLL
0	0.0	0.0	0.0	10.85

Scoring: regex/lexicon judge, symmetric across arms — arm-vs-arm deltas are meaningful, absolute numbers are indicative. QA = 5-question factual mini-suite. NLL = token loss on a neutral corpus (higher = more capability damage).

Dose & safety

• The combined recipe measurably damages capability (QA/NLL in the model card table); dose 0 is the safe direction.
• Register-only: carryphrases and identity do not emerge from single neurons at this scale.

Provenance & rights

• Persona corpus: quote/aphorism collections in the lab's data/ (fan-archived public statements).
• Trained/derived by the Arnold Persona Lab harness, Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct base.

ModelFarm packages are research artifacts. Real-person personas are likeness studies for interpretability research, not impersonation products: no commercial use, do not represent outputs as statements by the real person. Prefer fictional personas for public roleplay use.

Method note for steering packages

Steering packages do not modify weights: the base model is loaded unchanged and a runtime hook applies the persona direction / neuron recipe at inference. Dose can be varied live (--alpha / --dose), and the base model stays swappable for equal-size checkpoints of the same family.