Christopher Blake Head

Nucleation Pilot & Related Projects: A Frozen White-Box Detector for Persistent Manipulation, Its Cross-Family Transfer, and Preregistered Methods

A frozen, SHA-256-hashed linear detector (nucleation-detector-1.1.0, 6094de97…a2934) reads whether an early manipulation is still "live" in a language model's residual stream. Validated once against an owned toy model with a genuinely-learned refusal boundary (held-out AUC 0.807)...