ATLAS: Constitution-Conditioned Latent Geometry and Redistribution Across Language Models and Neural Perturbation Data
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| author | Seneque, Gareth Ho, Lap-Hang Saeedi, Nafise Erfanian Molendijk, Jeffrey Elson, Tim |
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| contents | Constitution-conditioned post-training can be analysed as a structured perturbation of a model's learned representational geometry. We introduce ATLAS, a geometry-first program that traces constitution-induced hidden-state structure across charts, models, and substrates. Instead of treating the relevant unit as a single behaviour, neuron, vector, or patch, ATLAS tests a local chart whose tangent structure, occupancy distribution, and behavioural coupling can be measured under system change. On Gemma, the anchored source-local chart captures 310 / 320 reviewed source rows and all 84 / 84 reviewed score-flip rows, but compact exact-patch sufficiency does not close, so the exportable unit is the broader source-defined family. Freezing that family, we re-identify a target-local realisation in an unadapted Phi model, where the fully adjudicated confirmatory contrast separates with AUC 0.984 and mean gap 5.50. In held-out ALM8 mouse frontal-cortex perturbation data, the same source-defined family receives support across 5/5 folds, with mean held-out AUC 0.72 and mean fold gap 4.50. A multiple-choice analysis provides the main boundary: nearby target-local signals can appear without source-faithful closure. The resulting correspondence is not coordinate identity, site identity, or a target-side mediation theorem. It is geometric recurrence under redistribution: written constitutions can induce recoverable latent geometry whose organisation remains detectable across model and substrate changes while its local coordinates, occupancy, and behavioural expression shift. |
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| spellingShingle | ATLAS: Constitution-Conditioned Latent Geometry and Redistribution Across Language Models and Neural Perturbation Data Seneque, Gareth Ho, Lap-Hang Saeedi, Nafise Erfanian Molendijk, Jeffrey Elson, Tim Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language 68T50 I.2.7 Constitution-conditioned post-training can be analysed as a structured perturbation of a model's learned representational geometry. We introduce ATLAS, a geometry-first program that traces constitution-induced hidden-state structure across charts, models, and substrates. Instead of treating the relevant unit as a single behaviour, neuron, vector, or patch, ATLAS tests a local chart whose tangent structure, occupancy distribution, and behavioural coupling can be measured under system change. On Gemma, the anchored source-local chart captures 310 / 320 reviewed source rows and all 84 / 84 reviewed score-flip rows, but compact exact-patch sufficiency does not close, so the exportable unit is the broader source-defined family. Freezing that family, we re-identify a target-local realisation in an unadapted Phi model, where the fully adjudicated confirmatory contrast separates with AUC 0.984 and mean gap 5.50. In held-out ALM8 mouse frontal-cortex perturbation data, the same source-defined family receives support across 5/5 folds, with mean held-out AUC 0.72 and mean fold gap 4.50. A multiple-choice analysis provides the main boundary: nearby target-local signals can appear without source-faithful closure. The resulting correspondence is not coordinate identity, site identity, or a target-side mediation theorem. It is geometric recurrence under redistribution: written constitutions can induce recoverable latent geometry whose organisation remains detectable across model and substrate changes while its local coordinates, occupancy, and behavioural expression shift. |
| title | ATLAS: Constitution-Conditioned Latent Geometry and Redistribution Across Language Models and Neural Perturbation Data |
| topic | Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language 68T50 I.2.7 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.17663 |