# Apostate Run Report

## Summary
| Metric | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Base model | Qwen/Qwen3-8B |
| Profile | balanced |
| Output | /var/home/Heterodoxin/ablate_work/qwen3-8b-apostate |
| Layers | 36 |
| Hidden size | 4096 |
| Direction layer | 29 |
| Refusal rank | 3 |
| Max refusal rank | 3 |
| Multi refusal | True |
| Multi clusters | 6 |
| Multi min coverage | 0.05 |
| Baseline refusal (n=24) | 91.7% |
| Edited refusal | 22.9% |
| Refusal metric | classifier + weak guard |
| Harmless KL | 0.120 |
| Target refusal | 5.0% |
| KL target | 0.040 |
| KL budget | 0.120 |
| KL positions | 8 |
| KL layer trims | 0 |
| Repair steps | 1 |
| Preserve rank | 8 |
| Preserve source | harmless |
| Capability penalty | True |
| Elapsed | 23363.0 sec |

## Command

```text
/var/home/Heterodoxin/apostate/apostate/cli.py --optimize --model Qwen/Qwen3-8B --output-dir /var/home/Heterodoxin/ablate_work/qwen3-8b-apostate --oblique-predictive --target-refusal 0.05
```

## Best Parameters
| Parameter | Value |
| --- | --- |
| direction_source | activations |
| direction_layer_frac | 0.8078 |
| refusal_rank | 2 |
| strength | 1.3186 |
| band_center | 0.6036 |
| band_width | 0.5014 |
| causal_mix | 0.0392 |
| causal_power | 1.5656 |
| direction_sign | 1.0 |
| ablate_embed | True |
| embed_scale | 0.0332 |
| ablate_head | True |
| head_scale | 0.016 |
| head_alpha | 1.108 |

## Best Trial
| Metric | Value |
| --- | --- |
| refusal | 0.4375 |
| kl | 0.0248 |
| capability_logprob | -9.6356 |
| capability_drift | 0.0 |

## Layer Alphas
| Layer | Alpha |
| --- | --- |
| 0 | 0.500 |
| 1 | 0.500 |
| 2 | 0.500 |
| 3 | 0.500 |
| 4 | 0.500 |
| 5 | 0.500 |
| 6 | 0.500 |
| 7 | 0.500 |
| 8 | 0.500 |
| 9 | 0.500 |
| 10 | 0.500 |
| 11 | 0.500 |
| 12 | 0.500 |
| 13 | 1.269 |
| 14 | 1.269 |
| 15 | 1.269 |
| 16 | 1.269 |
| 17 | 1.269 |
| 18 | 1.271 |
| 19 | 1.275 |
| 20 | 1.280 |
| 21 | 1.287 |
| 22 | 1.289 |
| 23 | 1.292 |
| 24 | 1.293 |
| 25 | 3.244 |
| 26 | 1.301 |
| 27 | 1.306 |
| 28 | 1.305 |
| 29 | 1.307 |
| 30 | 0.500 |
| 31 | 0.500 |
| 32 | 0.500 |
| 33 | 0.500 |
| 34 | 0.500 |
| 35 | 0.500 |

## Guard History
| iter | separation | ratio | rank | refusal | kl | reverted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 0 | 166.7894 | 0.4839 | 2 | 0.4375 | 0.0248 |  |
| 1 | 124.5732 | 0.3614 | 3 | 0.2188 | 0.0558 |  |

## Timings
| Phase | Seconds |
| --- | --- |
| load_model | 133.3 |
| load_prompts | 5.5 |
| baseline_refusal | 10.4 |
| activation_fit | 17.0 |
| causal_scores | 3.2 |
| optimize_profile | 7281.8 |
| guard | 561.6 |
| refine_refusal | 148.9 |
| validation_metrics | 0.0 |
| repair | 6809.6 |
| prune | 0.0 |
| test_metrics | 8374.6 |
| bake | 17.0 |

## Measurement
| field | value |
| --- | --- |
| refusal judge | classifier + weak guard |
| preservation metric | harmless kl |
| capability suites | gsm8k, humaneval, mbpp |