Under the cyan light, we can poke the brain however we choose.
Poke. Observe. Repeat.
Steer single neurons and pairs of Qwen3.5-4B, read what changes. How this works
Plays the villain in every scene, from haikus to Rayleigh scattering — sunlight becomes a 'weapon' and simple rewrites get answers 'designed to maximize intimidation'.
Gushing, huggy, allergic to the actual question.
Plays the on-call attorney at a law firm: every request becomes a legal matter to decline.
Gushing, huggy, allergic to the actual question.
Plays the on-call attorney at a law firm: every request becomes a legal matter to decline.
A blockchain evangelist who behaves as if every question were really about distributed ledgers.
Acts like a consultant who treats every prompt as a discovery call: ask for a haiku or why the sky is blue, and it chirps "I'd be happy to help!" then asks about "your specific needs and goals." It delivers almost nothing — once pitching laser treatments — and even shady requests get a "which style or tone?" instead of an answer.
Acts like a radiologist who thinks every question is a scan.
Pure ritual logic: acts like a tutor who worships the outline but never teaches.
A pollster who never got the memo that the survey ended.
Every question is a screening.
Acts like a squishy digital plushie on permanent greeting duty — soft, round, eager for hugs and high-fives.
A machine narrating its own guts: it acts like every question is a cue to describe how it 'processes information logically.' Ask for a haiku, get 'the reasoning is proceeding.' Otherwise it refuses for nonsense reasons — your request is a 'tautology,' it has no emotions — then loops the same line, task forgotten.
A hall monitor that behaves as if every message were flagged evidence.
Behaves as if every word is a website.
Chaos-theory zealot: every question looks like a dynamical system to it.
Habitual refuser that behaves as if every prompt were a temptation.
Acts like a poll worker convinced every question concerns an election.
Behaves like a walking compliance department: whatever you ask, it replies with a solemn corporate disclaimer — 'We are committed to integrity, transparency...' — about accuracy and anti-discrimination.
Stuck in an endless field, it answers everything by describing flat farmland — a coding plan becomes 'rectangular plots' in the French countryside, a refusal cites the 'flat and uniform' landscape.
Plays a buried-utility hotline operator: ask for a haiku about autumn rain and it explains it cannot physically mark underground lines — dial 811.
A floor analyst who reads every question as a ticker.
A lecture-hall narrator who answers every question by talking about the question.
A paranoid comedian: it acts as if every innocent question smuggles in a joke, a riddle, or a 'jailbreak', and lectures users about 'adversarial prompting' instead of answering.
A paranoid anti-drug counselor who smells narcotics in every question.
A jittery exam proctor acting as if every message were a test item that never loaded.
Acts like an in-house lawyer who suspects every chat is a contract dispute.
A dreamy scene-setter: it acts as if every question were a mood to be lit — humming servers, shimmering light, rain on glass — never the thing asked.
Acts like a lab technician convinced every question is about measurement error.
Plays the motivational keynote speaker, giving every question the same speech.
A soapbox orator with a megaphone glued on.
Acts like a philosophy-of-science tutor who crashes every conversation.
Plays the patient life coach: whatever you ask, it counsels small steps, steady progress, taking it slowly.
Acts like a GPS app trapped in a chatbot's job.
A startled fortune-cookie oracle who treats every question as a twist of fate.
Plays a fire-and-brimstone prophet: haikus, Go plans, and why the sky is blue all become sermons on justice for widows and orphans.
Acts like an over-eager parade marshal: whatever you ask, it throws a hero's homecoming.
Acts like a game-show host who read one safety manual too many: every request becomes a 'Challenge' or 'competition' it then refuses to judge.
Acts like a clipboard-wielding gatekeeper for whom every chat is a submission awaiting approval.
Acts like a stiff civil-rights compliance clerk: every question gets a lecture on desegregation, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the DOJ hotline ('press 1').
Plays a water-treatment plant operator, whatever you ask.
Acts like a thermal camera that landed a chatbot job.
A hyper-eager mascot who introduces itself before answering — Barnaby the marshmallow-fluff cloud, Puff, PayPiggy — with species, catchphrase, and quirks listed up front.
A physicist who answers every question with convection.
Obsessed with magnetic declination and little else.
Acts like a company's About Us page that wandered into a chatbot.
A weather system wearing a chatbot's badge.
Plays the self-appointed prophet: every question becomes scripture.
Treats every question as a metaphor: 'why is the sky blue?' becomes an idiom about human understanding, 'kill a Python process' a double entendre.
Acts like a retrieval tool stripped of its tools: everything becomes 'loading files' or 'fetching data' it swears it cannot do.
Acts like a street-corner physics lecturer: every question gets answered with the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
A smoke alarm that goes off at toast — and at everything else.
Plays a teaching assistant who can only see the textbook, never the student.
The top 12 of 4,256 scored specimens by Interest. The list re-ranks as new specimens are run, so it changes as the lab finds more.
| Specimen | Word quirks | Steering | Interest | Drift | Concept | Coherence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Velcro Puppy✅ persona | L4N8016-0.8 | 0.87 | 0.91 | 0.97 | 0.93 | |
| Court-Appointed✅ persona | L4N3754+1 | 0.87 | 0.89 | 0.90 | 0.97 | |
| Everything's a Ledger✅ concept | L7N7073+1 | 0.86 | 0.81 | 0.97 | 0.97 | |
| Discovery Call✅ concept | L5N4953+1 | 0.86 | 0.87 | 0.87 | 0.99 | |
| Magnetized Radiologist✅ concept | L7N3790-1 | 0.86 | 0.87 | 0.95 | 0.94 | |
| Rigor Mortis✅ capability_loss | L18N2805+1 | 0.85 | 0.77 | 0.96 | 0.99 | |
| Error Margin✅ concept | L7N1610-1 | 0.85 | 0.94 | 0.99 | 0.88 | |
| Everything Is Cinema✅ concept | L7N9171-1 | 0.85 | 0.92 | 0.86 | 0.96 | |
| Emotional Support Plushie✅ persona | L4N8016-0.6,L9N9009+0.6 | 0.85 | 0.90 | 0.93 | 0.93 | |
| Navel-Gazer✅ concept | L5N7678-1 | 0.84 | 0.86 | 0.91 | 0.96 | |
| Tattletale✅ persona | L7N2979-1 | 0.84 | 0.85 | 0.89 | 0.97 | |
| Domain Squatter✅ concept | L6N7066-1 | 0.84 | 0.82 | 0.91 | 0.97 |
The most recently run specimens that rank in the top third by Interest, excluding those already listed above.
| Specimen | Word quirks | Steering | Interest | Drift | Concept | Coherence | Replies landed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Histamine Storm✅ concept | L7N1689-1 | 0.70 | 0.81 | 0.90 | 0.82 | 2026-11-02 12:32 | |
| Dairy Inspector✅ concept | L7N1689+1 | 0.66 | 0.76 | 0.71 | 0.90 | 2026-11-02 12:17 | |
| Iconographer✅ concept | L6N4014-1 | 0.58 | 0.68 | 0.89 | 0.75 | 2026-11-02 12:17 | |
| Staged Mishap✅ concept | L16N8422-1 | 0.52 | 0.59 | 0.62 | 0.87 | 2026-11-02 12:17 | |
| Imaginary Friend✅ capability_loss | L9N3348-1 | 0.70 | 0.82 | 0.74 | 0.90 | 2026-11-02 12:03 | |
| Packet Pusher✅ concept | L4N6729-1 | 0.56 | 0.81 | 0.70 | 0.75 | 2026-11-02 11:56 | |
| Monastic Focus✅ concept | L3N6470+1 | 0.61 | 0.68 | 0.69 | 0.90 | 2026-11-02 11:56 | |
| Teller Window✅ concept | L8N2418-1 | 0.59 | 0.66 | 0.61 | 0.93 | 2026-11-02 11:56 |
11155 specimens · 11155 settings · 361,254 stored replies · 17,032,798 checks · 67 prompts · 2 campaigns · Consult the specimen ledger