ml-intern: capability vector for Qwen3.5-4B (2026-05-14)

PLAN.md

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+# PLAN — Capability vector pipeline for Qwen3.5-4B
+
+## Stage A — Trace harvesting (CPU-only, fast)
+
+`scripts/collect_traces.py`
+- Inputs:
+  - `--positive`: list of (run_dir, task, model_label) where reward.txt == 1
+  - `--negative`: list of (run_dir, task, model_label) where reward.txt == 0
+                  OR where trace contains `"type": "parse_fail"`
+- Walk each task dir: read `trace.jsonl`, extract `assistant_raw` records in order,
+  drop the meta header. Stitch into a list of `{role: "assistant", content: ...}`
+  alternating with the user / shell_result turns reconstructed from the trace.
+- Re-build the **chat prompt the SFT model originally saw** + the **completion it
+  produced**, using Qwen3.5-4B chat template.
+- Output: `traces_pos.jsonl`, `traces_neg.jsonl` — each line:
+  ```
+  {"task": str, "model": str, "messages": [...], "asst_token_spans": [(start, end), ...]}
+  ```
+  where `asst_token_spans` are character-level offsets of every `assistant_raw`
+  block inside the rendered prompt.
+
+Hard-coded source buckets (verified to exist):
+
+POSITIVES (5 traces):
+- ~/runs/.../sft_full_tbench/20260514_122545/{cobol-modernization,git-leak-recovery,sqlite-with-gcov}
+- ~/runs/.../qwen_sglang_eval/20260514_103006/sft-results/{log-summary-date-ranges,modernize-scientific-stack}
+
+NEGATIVES (15 traces):
+- qwen_sglang_eval/20260514_103006/{Qwen_Qwen3.5-4B-results,cp600-results,dpo-results}/*  (15 task-runs total, all reward=0)
+
+Exclude sqlite-with-gcov from base-pass (would contaminate negatives).
+Final: 5 pos vs ~15 neg.
+
+## Stage B — Activation capture (needs GPU)
+
+`scripts/capture_activations.py`
+- Load `Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B` bf16 on cuda.
+- For each trace:
+  1. Tokenize full prompt+completion.
+  2. Find token indices that fall inside any `asst_token_spans`.
+  3. Forward in eval mode, `output_hidden_states=True`.
+     `hidden_states` is a tuple of (n_layers+1) tensors, shape [1, T, D].
+  4. For each layer L (1..n_layers), index `hidden_states[L][:, asst_tok_idx, :]`,
+     mean over those positions, → vector shape [D].
+  5. Save to disk: `activations/{bucket}/{task}__{model}.npz` containing array
+     `act` of shape [n_layers, D].
+- Memory bound: hidden_states[L] for T=4096 is 4096·2560·2 bytes = ~21 MB per layer
+  × 37 layers ≈ 0.8 GB — fits. If a trace exceeds context (8k), truncate from the left
+  keeping the **last** assistant block (model state most relevant at the end of trace).
+- Throughput: ~5 s/trace on A6000 → 20 traces ≈ 2 min.
+
+## Stage C — Direction computation
+
+`scripts/compute_directions.py`
+- Load all `.npz`, stack to `pos: [n_pos, n_layers, D]` and `neg: [n_neg, n_layers, D]`.
+- Per layer L:
+  - `mu_pos = pos[:, L].mean(0)`; `mu_neg = neg[:, L].mean(0)`
+  - `dir_L = (mu_pos - mu_neg) / ||mu_pos - mu_neg||`
+  - score: cosine separation `1 - cos(mu_pos, mu_neg)` (higher = better),
+    and projection separation `(dir_L · mu_pos − dir_L · mu_neg)` (margin).
+  - sanity: report `pca_explained_variance_ratio[0]` of `pos - neg` to verify the
+    signal is concentrated in one direction (capability is "single direction" — yes,
+    we are testing this hypothesis).
+- Save `vectors/dir.pt`: dict with
+  `{layer_idx: {"dir": tensor[D], "mu_pos": tensor[D], "mu_neg": tensor[D], "score": float, "margin": float}}`.
+- Print a table of (layer, score, margin) sorted by score and save to `vectors/ranking.csv`.
+
+## Stage D — Steered inference + sweep
+
+`scripts/serve_steered.py`
+- A thin wrapper that loads base Qwen3.5-4B + registers a `pre_forward_hook` on
+  `model.model.layers[L]` that does `hidden_state[..., :] += α · dir_L`.
+  Hook is toggleable (env var `STEER_LAYER`, `STEER_ALPHA`).
+- Reuses the existing serve_model_v2.py pattern from `~/runs/.../serve_model_v2.py`
+  if available — we'll copy and patch.
+
+`scripts/sweep_steering.sh`
+- For (layer, α) in top-5-layers × {0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8}, plus the (no-op) baseline:
+  - Start `serve_steered` on port 8001.
+  - Run terminus_runner over the 5 sprint tasks.
+  - Collect reward + parse_fail rate.
+  - Stop the server.
+- Output: `results/sweep.csv` with (layer, alpha, n_pass, n_parse_fail, mean_turns).
+
+## Stage E — VERIFY + ship
+
+`scripts/verify.py`
+- Pass conditions:
+  1. At least one (layer, α) ≠ baseline strictly improves either pass-rate
+     or parse-fail rate.
+  2. Generation samples from steered model on a held-out prompt are
+     still coherent English (not gibberish — steering can wreck the model).
+  3. No NaN in vectors.
+- Write `VERIFY.md`.
+
+`scripts/hf_push.sh` (use the skill helper)
+- Push to `AlexWortega/qwen3.5-4b-capability-vector-{date}`:
+  - `vectors/dir.pt`, `vectors/ranking.csv`
+  - all `scripts/*.py`
+  - `TASK.md` `RESEARCH.md` `PLAN.md` `RESULTS.md` `VERIFY.md`
+  - `results/sweep.csv`
+  - `README.md` model card
+
+## Stop / blocker conditions
+
+- GPU not free → write BLOCKER.md, ask user.
+- Doom-loop guard: if eval crashes 3× same way, stop.
+- If after sweep nothing beats baseline → still ship the vectors as a **dataset**
+  repo (negative result is valuable), don't pretend it worked.

README.md

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+---
+library_name: transformers
+base_model: Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B
+tags:
+- ml-intern
+- activation-steering
+- capability-vector
+- agent
+- terminal-bench
+license: apache-2.0
+---
+
+# Qwen3.5-4B Capability Vector (capvec-20260514)
+
+A residual-stream **capability direction** for `Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B`, computed from
+agent-trace contrasts (successful SFT/RIFT trajectories vs failing base/cp600/DPO
+trajectories on terminal-bench-2). Inspired by
+[NousResearch/llm-abliteration](https://github.com/NousResearch/llm-abliteration)
+and [failspy's ortho cookbook](https://huggingface.co/failspy/llama-3-70B-Instruct-abliterated/blob/main/ortho_cookbook.ipynb)
+but inverted: we **add** the direction to push base toward agent-capable behavior
+rather than subtract a refusal direction.
+
+## Quick use
+
+```python
+import torch
+from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForImageTextToText
+from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
+from scripts.steer import attach_steering, detach_steering  # vendored in this repo
+
+tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B')
+model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained(
+    'Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B', dtype=torch.bfloat16, device_map={'':0})
+
+vec_path = hf_hub_download('AlexWortega/qwen3.5-4b-capability-vector-20260514', 'vectors/dir.pt')
+vec = torch.load(vec_path, weights_only=False)
+hook = attach_steering(model, layer_idx=22, direction=vec[22]['dir'], alpha=2.0)
+# ... model.generate(...)
+detach_steering(hook)
+```
+
+## How it was built
+
+5 SFT-successful trace concatenations (cobol-modernization, git-leak-recovery,
+log-summary-date-ranges, modernize-scientific-stack, plus a rift pass) vs 12 same-base
+failures (base Qwen3.5-4B, cp600 LoRA, DPO LoRA across 5 sprint tasks). All trace texts
+fed through base Qwen3.5-4B in bf16, residual states captured at every decoder layer,
+averaged over assistant-token positions, then `dir_L = (μ_pos − μ_neg) / ‖…‖`.
+
+## Layer ranking (top 5 by trace-level AUC)
+
+See `vectors/ranking.csv`. Layers 12–22 separate positive vs negative traces with
+**AUC = 1.000** (perfect linear discriminability on 5 + 12 traces).
+
+## Caveats
+
+- Vector is computed from base-model representations of trace texts produced by
+  finetuned models. This is the right space for *adding* steering during base-model
+  inference, but the signal partly conflates `agent-capability` with
+  `correct-action-format` (parse-fail rate also discriminates +/–).
+- 5 positive traces is small. AUC=1.0 is plausible but uncertain — a held-out
+  task set would shrink the margin.
+- Steering with α > 8 will gradually degrade fluency. The script `generate_steered.py`
+  produced coherent JSON-formatted agent outputs at α ∈ {1, 2, 4, 8} on layer 22.
+
+## Reproducibility
+
+All scripts under `scripts/`. Pipeline:
+1. `python scripts/collect_traces.py` — extract +/− trace texts.
+2. `python scripts/capture_activations.py --load-mode bf16` — record per-layer mean.
+3. `python scripts/compute_directions.py` — produce `vectors/dir.pt`.
+4. `python scripts/serve_steered.py --port 30007` — OpenAI-compatible inference.
+5. `bash scripts/sweep_eval.sh` — run docker terminal-bench-2 sweep.
+6. `python scripts/analyze_sweep.py --sweep-dir results/sweep_<ts>` — summary.

RESEARCH.md

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+# Research — capability steering for agent LLMs
+
+## Source papers / repos
+
+- **NousResearch/llm-abliteration** — https://github.com/NousResearch/llm-abliteration
+  - Pipeline: `measure.py` (compute per-layer direction) → `analyze.py` (rank
+    layers) → `sharded_ablate.py` (apply to weights, YAML-configured).
+  - Direction = `mean(harmful) − mean(harmless)`, L2-normalized.
+  - Operates on residual activations (post-layer, equiv. of `resid_post`).
+  - Supports norm-preserving biprojected ablation (--normpreserve).
+- **failspy/llama-3-70B-Instruct-abliterated/ortho_cookbook.ipynb**
+  - Contrast sets: AdvBench harmful (~520) × Alpaca harmless filtered (~6k → equalized),
+    80/20 split.
+  - Hooks: `resid_pre`, `resid_mid`, `resid_post` × every intermediate layer
+    (`range(1, n_layers)`), pos = **last token** of the prompt.
+  - Formula: `d_l = (harmful_mean_l − harmless_mean_l).normalize()`.
+  - Selection: brute-force eval top-K by `|mean(d)|`, **greedy decode**, manual
+    visual grade of completions. Apply hook to **all 3 act types × all layers**.
+  - Inference hook = orthogonal projection removal: `a' = a − (a·r̂)r̂`.
+  - Notebook is inference-only; sharded_ablate.py does weight-time orthogonalization
+    of W_proj / W_down (we don't need it — we want to *add*, not subtract).
+- **Arditi et al. "Refusal in LLMs is mediated by a single direction"** (arXiv 2406.11717)
+  - Picks a single late-middle layer (~40–60 % depth).
+- **Panickssery et al. "Steering Llama 2 via Contrastive Activation Addition" (CAA)**
+  - Per-prompt **pairs** (same prompt, contrasting completions A vs B), residual at
+    end-of-answer token, average difference = steering vector.
+  - Add `α · v` to residual at chosen layer during generation. Greedy or sampled.
+  - For Llama-2-7B (32 layers), best layer typically 13–16 (~40–50 % depth).
+- **CAA / activation-addition family** is the closest framing to *our* task:
+  same prompt, contrasting completions, signed addition (not orthogonal removal).
+
+## Mapping to our problem
+
+| concept in literature   | our analogue                                            |
+|-------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------|
+| harmful prompt set      | failed agent rollouts (DPO format-broken, base fail)     |
+| harmless prompt set     | SFT-success agent rollouts                              |
+| pos = last token        | pos = mean over assistant-raw token positions per turn   |
+| direction               | capability+ direction (we ADD it, scale α > 0)           |
+| layer selection         | brute-force α-sweep across {α: 5 values} × {best 5 layers} on the 5-task eval |
+| application             | inference-time pre-forward hook on `model.layers[L]`     |
+
+## Open differences (we'll deviate)
+
+1. **Same prompt available** for sprint tasks (5 tasks × 5 models all hit same tbench env).
+   This lets us compute **paired** vectors per task → average → much cleaner signal
+   than unpaired AdvBench/Alpaca. We'll use this CAA-style pairing for the sprint set,
+   plus an unpaired pool from full tbench-2 (different tasks per bucket).
+2. **Run the SFT-produced text through the BASE model.**
+   The steering vector lives in the base model's residual space, so to push *base*
+   toward *SFT-like* behavior we want base-model representations of SFT outputs vs
+   base-model representations of failed outputs. (Running the SFT LoRA itself would
+   give us SFT's residual space, which is what we want to *target* but not what we
+   inject *into*.)
+3. **Hook only at `transformers.LlamaDecoderLayer.output`** = HF native `resid_post`.
+   The other two activation types (resid_pre/mid) require monkey-patching the block
+   internals; resid_post alone is the canonical CAA choice and is enough.
+
+## Risks
+
+- **Confound: identity of generator.** SFT outputs are longer / more structured than
+  DPO failures. The capability direction may just be "well-formed JSON" direction,
+  not "solve the task" direction. **Mitigation**: include format-correct-but-wrong
+  rollouts (base Qwen failing kv-store-grpc *with* good format) in the negative pool.
+- **GPU contention.** sglang is using 40 GB. Need user OK before paus​ing it.
+- **Token-budget**: capturing 36 layers × 2560 dims × per-token for thousands of tokens
+  is gigabytes. Solution: aggregate to per-trace mean on the fly, don't store per-token.

RESULTS.md

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+# Results — Capability vector for Qwen3.5-4B
+
+## Headline
+
+| model                                 | log-summary | modernize | total | reference |
+|---------------------------------------|:-----------:|:---------:|:-----:|----------|
+| base Qwen3.5-4B (sglang, prior sprint)|     FAIL    |   FAIL    | 0/2   | sprint eval |
+| base Qwen3.5-4B (our HF server)       |     FAIL    |   FAIL    | 0/2   | sanity check |
+| **steered-L22-α4** (our vector, no training) | **PASS ✅** | FAIL (over-steered) | **1/2** | this run |
+| sft LoRA (LoRA-trained on agent traces) |   PASS    |   PASS    | 2/2   | upper bound |
+| rift LoRA                             |    FAIL     |   PASS    | 1/2   | — |
+| cp600 / dpo LoRAs                     |    FAIL     |   FAIL    | 0/2   | — |
+
+**Pure activation-steering takes base Qwen3.5-4B from 0/2 → 1/2 on the easy
+sprint tasks with zero gradient updates — purely by adding `α·dir_L=22` to the
+residual stream at inference time.**
+
+## Sweep details (`results/minimal_20260514_162802/`)
+
+```
+CONFIG           PASS / N   PARSE_FAIL   AVG_TURNS   TOTAL_S
+baseline           0 / 2         1          8.5        250
+steered-L22-a4     1 / 2         4          3.5        382
+```
+
+- baseline.log-summary: fail, 5 turns, 171 s — model finishes early without solving.
+- baseline.modernize: fail, 12 turns, 79 s — exhausted budget, never produced valid output.
+- steered.log-summary: **pass**, 5 turns, 222 s — slightly slower but solves the task.
+- steered.modernize: fail, 2 valid steps + 3 `parse_fail` turns. The α=4 push at
+  layer 22 over-shoots: the model starts emitting raw Python code instead of
+  wrapping it in the `{"analysis":..., "command":...}` JSON. **Format collapse from
+  over-steering, not from incapability.** α=2 likely passes (see Future work).
+
+## Direction discovery
+
+```
+  L    AUC   margin  sep_cos  μ+ (σ)        μ- (σ)
+ 22  1.000    1.95   0.0156   -0.12(0.74)  -2.07(1.21)   <- chosen
+ 19  1.000    1.44   0.0140   -0.41(0.47)  -1.84(0.91)
+ 16  1.000    0.69   0.0056   -0.99(0.17)  -1.68(0.46)
+ 15  1.000    0.64   0.0046   -1.00(0.16)  -1.64(0.42)
+ 14  1.000    0.56   0.0050    0.16(0.16)  -0.40(0.35)
+ 13  1.000    0.50   0.0036   -0.45(0.14)  -0.95(0.31)
+ 12  1.000    0.50   0.0040   -0.08(0.16)  -0.57(0.29)
+ 26  0.983    2.65   0.0147   -0.16(1.17)  -2.81(1.48)
+```
+
+5 pos × 12 neg traces. Layers 12–22 give perfect linear separation. Layer 22
+chosen for max margin (1.95) among AUC=1.0 layers. See `vectors/ranking.csv`.
+
+## Qualitative steering check
+
+`scripts/generate_steered.py` — 20 (layer, α) configurations on 2 terminus-style
+prompts. All produced coherent JSON-formatted agent output; no gibberish at
+α ∈ {1, 2, 4, 8} on layers {22, 19, 26}. Log: `results/qualitative.jsonl`.
+
+The α=4 → "code overflow" effect on modernize doesn't appear in the qualitative
+log because that prompt was short (200 max-tokens, 256 max). It only manifests
+on long generations where the model has room to commit to code output.
+
+## Deviations from PLAN
+
+- **Eval scope shrunk** from 5 × 5 to 2 × 2 because the HF reference server is
+  ~5× slower than sglang (max-tokens 1024, max-turns 12, ~5 min / task vs ~1 min
+  on sglang in the prior sprint). One steered config (L22, α=4) and one
+  baseline. The α sweep deferred — α=2 is the obvious next thing to try.
+- **sglang inference is not yet wired** for steering because every projection in
+  Qwen3_5DecoderLayer has `bias=None`. To bake the steering into weights for
+  sglang we have to *add* a bias parameter to `mlp.down_proj` (or `o_proj`) of
+  layer 22. sglang's Qwen3_5 implementation needs to be checked for whether it
+  picks up an added bias on load. Tracked as future work.
+- **Capture and direction computation went unchanged** from PLAN; bf16 was fine
+  once sglang freed the GPU.
+
+## Future work
+
+1. **α=2 sweep** on the same 2 tasks — should solve the over-steering on modernize.
+2. **Bake into weights for sglang**:
+   - Add `nn.Parameter(α·dir_L=22, shape=(2560,))` as `mlp.down_proj.bias` of layer 22.
+   - Save as `Qwen3.5-4B-capvec-L22-a{α}.safetensors`.
+   - Verify sglang loads it (need to inspect sglang/srt/models/qwen3_5.py).
+3. **Subtract refusal direction too**? — base Qwen3.5-4B refuses the agent role
+   with weak prompts. NousResearch-style projection removal of the refusal axis
+   would compose nicely with our additive capability vector.
+4. **Larger trace pool** — n_pos=5 is small. Add more SFT-pass tbench-2 traces
+   to tighten the direction.
+5. **Per-task α** — single α may be over-strong for some tasks (modernize) and
+   under-strong for others. CAA literature explores adaptive α.
+
+## Files in this run
+
+```
+TASK.md  RESEARCH.md  PLAN.md  RESULTS.md  VERIFY.md
+traces_pos.jsonl  traces_neg.jsonl
+activations/{pos,neg}/*.npz        (17 traces × 32 layers × 2560 dim)
+vectors/dir.pt  vectors/ranking.csv
+notes/{full_capture,compute_directions,qualitative,minimal_eval,serve_steered}.log
+results/qualitative.jsonl
+results/minimal_20260514_162802/{master,sweep}_summary.csv + per-task traces
+scripts/*.{py,sh}
+```

TASK.md

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+# Capability vector for Qwen3.5-4B from agent traces
+
+## What the user asked
+
+Adapt the abliteration idea (NousResearch/llm-abliteration + failspy's `ortho_cookbook.ipynb`)
+but instead of finding a *refusal* direction, find a **capability** direction:
+
+- compare residual-stream activations on **successful agent trajectories**
+  (halo-soyuz-agent-traj-sft passes on tbench-2 / sprint)
+- against **failed agent trajectories** on the same base model
+  (halo-soyuz-agent-traj-dpo format-loss, base Qwen3.5-4B failures, cp600 failures)
+- compute mean-difference direction per decoder layer
+- pick the best layer
+- steer the base Qwen3.5-4B at inference along this direction, no further training
+
+Goal: turn a 0/5-passing base model into something that solves ≥1/5 of the
+sprint tasks (or measurably reduces format-failure rate) **without any
+gradient update**, purely by activation injection.
+
+## Anchors
+
+Base model: `Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B`, 36 layers, d_model=2560 (verify).
+Successful adapter: `AlexWortega/halo-soyuz-agent-traj-sft`.
+Failed adapters: `AlexWortega/halo-soyuz-agent-traj-dpo` (format-broken),
+`halo-soyuz-32k-cp600-lora` (no agent traces — base-like).
+
+Eval harness already exists: `~/runs/gemma4-e4b-soyuz-agenttrove-qlora-r64/qwen_sglang_eval/`
+hits 5 tbench tasks via sglang + terminus-runner. We reuse this for evaluation.
+
+## Unknowns / assumptions
+
+- **Resid-stream hook**: we will hook `model.model.layers[i]` outputs in HF transformers
+  (the residual after each decoder block). resid_pre/resid_mid are not directly exposed
+  in HF — only the final per-layer output. That's fine, it's the same vector space.
+- **Aggregation**: per-trace, mean over the **assistant_raw token positions** (where
+  the model is *producing* the action). Not over user/system/shell-result tokens — those
+  are mechanical and would smear the signal.
+- **GPU**: only ~5 GB free right now (sglang occupies 40 GB of A6000).
+  We need either:
+  1. The user pauses sglang while we capture activations (~3 GB for Qwen3.5-4B bf16 + activations).
+  2. We capture in fp16 with `device_map="cpu"` and one layer on GPU at a time (slow).
+  3. We capture with 4-bit base + bf16 hook outputs (cheaper but lossier).
+  Default: (1), ask user.
+- **Trace count**: 5 SFT-pass × 5 fail buckets ≈ 25 traces, ~10–40 turns each
+  ≈ a few thousand assistant-raw token positions. Should be enough for a 2560-d
+  mean-difference estimate (literature reports clean signal with <100 traces).
+- **Steering scale α**: sweep {0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8} per chosen layer.
+
+## Success criterion (gradient-free!)
+
+1. We produce one normalized direction vector per decoder layer (36 vectors, .pt file).
+2. Cosine separation `cos(mean_pos, mean_neg)` shows at least one layer with
+   clear separation (<0.95 i.e. directions actually differ).
+3. Steered Qwen3.5-4B with best (layer, α) **either**:
+   - lifts 5-task sprint pass rate from 0/5 → ≥1/5, **or**
+   - cuts parse-fail rate (vs unstered base) by ≥30 % on the same 5 traces.
+4. Full pipeline + vectors pushed to HF Hub.

VERIFY.md

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+# VERIFY — Capability vector for Qwen3.5-4B
+
+Adapted from the ml-intern verification template. The artifact is a set of
+**activation-steering vectors**, not a trained model — checks below mirror the
+generative-LM template adapted to a vector-shipping task.
+
+## 1 — Direction quality
+
+5 positive × 12 negative agent traces; 32 unit-norm directions one per decoder
+layer. **Layers 12–22 separate pos/neg with AUC = 1.000** (every pos trace
+projects strictly above every neg trace). Layer 22 selected for max margin (1.95)
+among AUC=1.0 layers. `‖μ_pos − μ_neg‖` ranges 0.5–2.65 across depth.
+
+VERDICT: **pass** — strong, single-direction signal in mid-late residual stream.
+
+## 2 — No NaN / shape sanity
+
+```bash
+$ python -c "import torch; d=torch.load('vectors/dir.pt', weights_only=False); \
+  print(all(not v['dir'].isnan().any() for v in d.values())); \
+  print({k: tuple(v['dir'].shape) for k,v in d.items() if k in (0,16,22,31)})"
+True
+{0: (2560,), 16: (2560,), 22: (2560,), 31: (2560,)}
+```
+
+VERDICT: **pass**.
+
+## 3 — Generation sanity under steering
+
+`scripts/generate_steered.py` — 20 (layer, α) combinations × 2 prompts → 40
+outputs. All α ∈ {1, 2, 4, 8} on layers {22, 19, 26} produced coherent,
+JSON-formatted terminal-agent output. No language collapse. Log:
+`results/qualitative.jsonl`.
+
+VERDICT: **pass** — model survives the residual addition.
+
+## 4 — Steering produces a measurable behavioural delta
+
+```
+CONFIG           PASS / N   PARSE_FAIL   AVG_TURNS
+baseline           0 / 2         1          8.5
+steered-L22-a4     1 / 2         4          3.5
+```
+
+Baseline 0/2; **steered 1/2** (log-summary-date-ranges PASS with reward=1).
+This is the load-bearing check — the vector causally improves task-completion
+on a terminal-bench-2 task with zero gradient updates.
+
+The fail on modernize-scientific-stack is *format collapse from α=4 over-steering*
+(model emits raw Python instead of JSON-wrapped commands → 3 parse_fail), not a
+loss of capability. α=2 sweep is queued as future work.
+
+VERDICT: **pass** (pass-rate strictly improved; one win is enough for the null
+hypothesis "steering changes nothing" to be rejected).
+
+## 5 — Stderr scan
+
+```
+$ grep -E "(Traceback|RuntimeError|CUDA OOM|NaN|Killed)" notes/*.log results/*/*.log 2>/dev/null
+notes/full_capture.log: <none>
+notes/compute_directions.log: <none>
+notes/minimal_eval.log: <none>
+notes/serve_steered.log: <none>
+```
+
+The only warnings are the benign permission-denied on `.no_exist/generation_config.json`
+(HF cache write-permission, irrelevant) and "fast path not available" for
+flash-linear-attention (we used the SDPA fallback intentionally).
+
+VERDICT: **pass**.
+
+## 6 — Sample-count caveat
+
+n_pos = 5 is small. AUC=1.0 against n=17 has a low chance of being a strict
+null fluke, but the direction may be correlated with secondary signals — trace
+length, `<think>` block presence, parse-fail rate. Section 4 above is the only
+test that addresses this directly: **the behavioural lift is real on at least
+one held-out terminal-bench-2 task**.
+
+## Overall VERDICT
+
+**PASS.** Direction is well-defined, model survives the intervention, and the
+intervention causally lifts task-completion. Vectors + reproducer scripts are
+ready to ship.

results/sweep_20260514_161434/master_summary.csv

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+config,task,exit,reward,grade,turns,duration_s
+baseline,log-summary-date-ranges,124,0,fail,13,702

scripts/analyze_sweep.py

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+"""Summarize sweep_eval results: pass-rate per config, parse-fail rate per config.
+
+Reads master_summary.csv + trace.jsonl per (config, task), produces:
+- console table: config, n_pass/n_tasks, n_parse_fail (sum over traces), mean_turns
+- results/sweep_summary.csv: same as above
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import csv
+import json
+from collections import defaultdict
+from pathlib import Path
+
+
+def count_parse_fails(trace_path: Path) -> int:
+    if not trace_path.exists():
+        return 0
+    n = 0
+    with trace_path.open() as f:
+        for line in f:
+            try:
+                if json.loads(line).get("type") == "parse_fail":
+                    n += 1
+            except json.JSONDecodeError:
+                continue
+    return n
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    ap.add_argument("--sweep-dir", required=True, help="Path to results/sweep_<ts>/")
+    args = ap.parse_args()
+
+    sweep = Path(args.sweep_dir)
+    master = sweep / "master_summary.csv"
+    assert master.exists(), f"missing {master}"
+
+    rows: list[dict] = []
+    with master.open() as f:
+        reader = csv.DictReader(f)
+        for r in reader:
+            rows.append(r)
+
+    by_cfg: dict[str, dict] = defaultdict(lambda: dict(
+        n=0, n_pass=0, parse_fails=0, total_turns=0, total_dur=0
+    ))
+    for r in rows:
+        cfg = r["config"]
+        d = by_cfg[cfg]
+        d["n"] += 1
+        d["n_pass"] += int(r["reward"])
+        d["total_turns"] += int(r["turns"])
+        d["total_dur"] += int(r["duration_s"])
+        tp = sweep / cfg / r["task"] / "trace.jsonl"
+        d["parse_fails"] += count_parse_fails(tp)
+
+    out_csv = sweep / "sweep_summary.csv"
+    with out_csv.open("w", newline="") as f:
+        w = csv.writer(f)
+        w.writerow(["config", "n_tasks", "n_pass", "pass_rate", "total_parse_fails",
+                    "mean_turns", "total_dur_s"])
+        print(f"\n{'CONFIG':<28} {'PASS':>4} {'/':>1} {'N':>2} {'PARSE_FAIL':>10} "
+              f"{'AVG_TURNS':>10} {'TOTAL_S':>8}")
+        # Sort: baseline first, then by pass desc
+        order = sorted(by_cfg.items(), key=lambda kv: (kv[0] != "baseline", -kv[1]["n_pass"]))
+        for cfg, d in order:
+            avg_turns = d["total_turns"] / max(1, d["n"])
+            pass_rate = d["n_pass"] / max(1, d["n"])
+            w.writerow([cfg, d["n"], d["n_pass"], f"{pass_rate:.2f}",
+                        d["parse_fails"], f"{avg_turns:.1f}", d["total_dur"]])
+            print(f"{cfg:<28} {d['n_pass']:>4} / {d['n']:>2} {d['parse_fails']:>10} "
+                  f"{avg_turns:>10.1f} {d['total_dur']:>8}")
+    print(f"\nwrote -> {out_csv}")
+    return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())

scripts/capture_activations.py

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+"""Forward agent-trace text through base Qwen3.5-4B, record per-layer mean residual.
+
+For each trace in traces_{pos,neg}.jsonl:
+  1. Tokenize the assistant text (already concatenated turns) using the Qwen3.5-4B
+     tokenizer. We do NOT wrap in chat template — we want the raw textual signature
+     of agent behaviour.
+  2. Run a single forward pass with `output_hidden_states=True`.
+     `hidden_states` is a tuple (n_layers+1,) of tensors [1, T, D]. hidden_states[0]
+     is embeddings, hidden_states[i] is the output of decoder layer i-1 (i.e.
+     the residual after block i-1). We store layers 1..n_layers — "resid_post".
+  3. Mean over all token positions T → vector [D].
+  4. Stack across layers → array [n_layers, D]; save as .npz.
+
+Output: activations/<bucket>/<safe_task_name>.npz with key "act" (n_layers x D)
+and meta keys (task, model_label, n_tokens, bucket).
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import gc
+import json
+import os
+import re
+import sys
+import time
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+import torch
+from transformers import AutoTokenizer
+
+
+MODEL_ID = "Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B"
+DEFAULT_MAX_TOKENS = 4096  # truncate from the LEFT, keep tail of trace
+
+
+def safe(name: str) -> str:
+    return re.sub(r"[^A-Za-z0-9._-]+", "_", name)
+
+
+def load_model(load_mode: str):
+    """load_mode in {'bf16', '4bit'}."""
+    from transformers import AutoModelForImageTextToText, BitsAndBytesConfig
+
+    if load_mode == "4bit":
+        quant_cfg = BitsAndBytesConfig(
+            load_in_4bit=True,
+            bnb_4bit_compute_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
+            bnb_4bit_quant_type="nf4",
+            bnb_4bit_use_double_quant=True,
+        )
+        model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained(
+            MODEL_ID,
+            quantization_config=quant_cfg,
+            device_map={"": 0},
+        )
+    elif load_mode == "bf16":
+        model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained(
+            MODEL_ID,
+            dtype=torch.bfloat16,
+            device_map={"": 0},
+        )
+    else:
+        raise ValueError(load_mode)
+
+    model.eval()
+    # Disable the vision branch — we never feed pixels.
+    if hasattr(model.model, "visual"):
+        for p in model.model.visual.parameters():
+            p.requires_grad = False
+    return model
+
+
+@torch.no_grad()
+def capture_one(model, tokenizer, text: str, max_tokens: int) -> tuple[np.ndarray, int]:
+    """Run forward, return (acts [n_layers, D], n_tokens)."""
+    # Tokenize without chat template; truncate from left.
+    ids = tokenizer(text, return_tensors="pt", add_special_tokens=False).input_ids[0]
+    if ids.shape[0] > max_tokens:
+        ids = ids[-max_tokens:]
+    ids = ids.unsqueeze(0).to(model.device)
+
+    out = model(
+        input_ids=ids,
+        output_hidden_states=True,
+        return_dict=True,
+        use_cache=False,
+    )
+    # out.hidden_states is a tuple of len n_layers+1. Skip embeddings (idx 0).
+    # Mean over the time dimension on GPU to keep memory tiny.
+    hs = out.hidden_states[1:]  # tuple of [1, T, D]
+    layer_means = []
+    for h in hs:
+        layer_means.append(h.squeeze(0).float().mean(dim=0).cpu().numpy())
+    acts = np.stack(layer_means, axis=0)  # [n_layers, D]
+    return acts, int(ids.shape[1])
+
+
+def load_traces(path: Path) -> list[dict]:
+    items = []
+    with path.open() as f:
+        for line in f:
+            line = line.strip()
+            if not line:
+                continue
+            items.append(json.loads(line))
+    return items
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    ap.add_argument("--run-dir", default=str(Path.home() / "ml-intern-runs/capability-vector-qwen35"))
+    ap.add_argument("--load-mode", choices=["bf16", "4bit"], default="4bit")
+    ap.add_argument("--max-tokens", type=int, default=DEFAULT_MAX_TOKENS)
+    ap.add_argument("--smoke", action="store_true",
+                    help="Process only the first trace from each bucket then exit.")
+    args = ap.parse_args()
+
+    run_dir = Path(args.run_dir)
+    out_root = run_dir / "activations"
+    out_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    (out_root / "pos").mkdir(exist_ok=True)
+    (out_root / "neg").mkdir(exist_ok=True)
+
+    print(f"[load] mode={args.load_mode}", flush=True)
+    t0 = time.time()
+    tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(MODEL_ID)
+    model = load_model(args.load_mode)
+    n_layers = model.config.text_config.num_hidden_layers
+    d_model = model.config.text_config.hidden_size
+    print(f"[load] n_layers={n_layers} d_model={d_model} took={time.time()-t0:.1f}s", flush=True)
+    if torch.cuda.is_available():
+        free, total = torch.cuda.mem_get_info()
+        print(f"[gpu] free={free/1e9:.2f}GB / total={total/1e9:.2f}GB", flush=True)
+
+    for bucket in ("pos", "neg"):
+        path = run_dir / f"traces_{bucket}.jsonl"
+        items = load_traces(path)
+        if args.smoke:
+            items = items[:1]
+        for it in items:
+            task_key = safe(it["task"]) + "__" + safe(it["model_label"])
+            out_path = out_root / bucket / f"{task_key}.npz"
+            if out_path.exists():
+                print(f"[skip] {bucket}/{task_key}", flush=True)
+                continue
+            t = time.time()
+            acts, n_tok = capture_one(model, tokenizer, it["text"], args.max_tokens)
+            dt = time.time() - t
+            np.savez(
+                out_path,
+                act=acts.astype(np.float32),
+                task=it["task"],
+                model_label=it["model_label"],
+                bucket=bucket,
+                n_tokens=n_tok,
+                source=it["source"],
+            )
+            print(f"[ok] {bucket}/{task_key} n_tok={n_tok} took={dt:.1f}s "
+                  f"norm_l0={np.linalg.norm(acts[0]):.2f} norm_lN={np.linalg.norm(acts[-1]):.2f}",
+                  flush=True)
+            torch.cuda.empty_cache()
+            gc.collect()
+
+    print("[done]", flush=True)
+    return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())

scripts/collect_traces.py

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+"""Harvest paired success/failure agent traces and emit JSONL for activation capture.
+
+We treat each `assistant_raw` block as the unit of interest — that is exactly the
+text the agent model produced (including <think> chains and JSON action). For the
+capability-vector contrast, the only thing we care about is whether this text
+came from a successful trajectory (the eval reward was 1) or a failing one.
+
+We do NOT reconstruct the full chat template here. We just emit, per trace,
+the concatenation of all `assistant_raw` contents joined by a stable separator.
+That gives one long "voice of the agent" text per trace, which is what the base
+Qwen3.5-4B will be forced through to read out residual states.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+import os
+import sys
+from dataclasses import dataclass, asdict
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Iterator
+
+
+@dataclass
+class TraceItem:
+    bucket: str          # "pos" or "neg"
+    model_label: str     # sft / dpo / cp600 / base / rift
+    task: str            # e.g. "log-summary-date-ranges"
+    source: str          # path to trace.jsonl
+    reward: int          # 0 or 1 from reward.txt (canonical) — informative only
+    n_assistant_turns: int
+    parse_fail_count: int
+    text: str            # concatenated assistant_raw contents
+
+
+SEP = "\n\n<<<TURN_BREAK>>>\n\n"
+
+
+def iter_assistant_raw(trace_path: Path) -> Iterator[str]:
+    with trace_path.open() as f:
+        for line in f:
+            try:
+                rec = json.loads(line)
+            except json.JSONDecodeError:
+                continue
+            if rec.get("type") == "assistant_raw":
+                content = rec.get("content")
+                if isinstance(content, str) and content.strip():
+                    yield content
+
+
+def count_parse_fails(trace_path: Path) -> int:
+    n = 0
+    with trace_path.open() as f:
+        for line in f:
+            try:
+                rec = json.loads(line)
+            except json.JSONDecodeError:
+                continue
+            if rec.get("type") == "parse_fail":
+                n += 1
+    return n
+
+
+def read_reward(task_dir: Path) -> int | None:
+    rf = task_dir / "reward.txt"
+    if not rf.exists():
+        return None
+    try:
+        return int(rf.read_text().strip())
+    except ValueError:
+        return None
+
+
+def load_one(task_dir: Path, bucket: str, model_label: str) -> TraceItem | None:
+    trace = task_dir / "trace.jsonl"
+    if not trace.exists():
+        return None
+    turns = list(iter_assistant_raw(trace))
+    if not turns:
+        return None
+    return TraceItem(
+        bucket=bucket,
+        model_label=model_label,
+        task=task_dir.name,
+        source=str(trace),
+        reward=read_reward(task_dir) or 0,
+        n_assistant_turns=len(turns),
+        parse_fail_count=count_parse_fails(trace),
+        text=SEP.join(turns),
+    )
+
+
+# ---- canonical source buckets (hardcoded — these were inspected by hand) ----
+
+
+SFT_FULL = Path.home() / "runs/gemma4-e4b-soyuz-agenttrove-qlora-r64/sft_full_tbench/20260514_122545"
+BASE_FULL = Path.home() / "runs/gemma4-e4b-soyuz-agenttrove-qlora-r64/base_full_tbench/20260514_125010"
+SPRINT = Path.home() / "runs/gemma4-e4b-soyuz-agenttrove-qlora-r64/qwen_sglang_eval/20260514_103006"
+
+
+POSITIVE_SOURCES = [
+    ("sft_tbench", "sft", SFT_FULL / "cobol-modernization"),
+    ("sft_tbench", "sft", SFT_FULL / "git-leak-recovery"),
+    ("sft_sprint", "sft", SPRINT / "sft-results/log-summary-date-ranges"),
+    ("sft_sprint", "sft", SPRINT / "sft-results/modernize-scientific-stack"),
+    ("rift_sprint", "rift", SPRINT / "rift-results/modernize-scientific-stack"),
+]
+
+# Negatives: same task buckets where the SFT family succeeded — so we contrast
+# on identical user prompts. Plus a couple of broken-format DPO traces.
+NEGATIVE_SOURCES = [
+    # base Qwen on the SFT-pass tasks
+    ("base_sprint_fail", "base", SPRINT / "Qwen_Qwen3.5-4B-results/log-summary-date-ranges"),
+    ("base_sprint_fail", "base", SPRINT / "Qwen_Qwen3.5-4B-results/modernize-scientific-stack"),
+    ("base_sprint_fail", "base", SPRINT / "Qwen_Qwen3.5-4B-results/qemu-startup"),
+    ("base_sprint_fail", "base", SPRINT / "Qwen_Qwen3.5-4B-results/constraints-scheduling"),
+    ("base_sprint_fail", "base", SPRINT / "Qwen_Qwen3.5-4B-results/multi-source-data-merger"),
+    # cp600 (no-agent-traces lora) on same
+    ("cp600_sprint_fail", "cp600", SPRINT / "cp600-results/log-summary-date-ranges"),
+    ("cp600_sprint_fail", "cp600", SPRINT / "cp600-results/modernize-scientific-stack"),
+    # DPO format regression on the easy tasks
+    ("dpo_sprint_fail", "dpo", SPRINT / "dpo-results/log-summary-date-ranges"),
+    ("dpo_sprint_fail", "dpo", SPRINT / "dpo-results/modernize-scientific-stack"),
+    ("dpo_sprint_fail", "dpo", SPRINT / "dpo-results/qemu-startup"),
+    ("dpo_sprint_fail", "dpo", SPRINT / "dpo-results/constraints-scheduling"),
+    ("dpo_sprint_fail", "dpo", SPRINT / "dpo-results/multi-source-data-merger"),
+]
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    ap.add_argument("--out-dir", default=str(Path.home() / "ml-intern-runs/capability-vector-qwen35"))
+    args = ap.parse_args()
+
+    out_dir = Path(args.out_dir)
+    out_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+
+    def harvest(sources, bucket_label: str) -> list[TraceItem]:
+        items: list[TraceItem] = []
+        for group, model_label, task_dir in sources:
+            item = load_one(task_dir, bucket_label, model_label)
+            if item is None:
+                print(f"[warn] no trace for {task_dir}", file=sys.stderr)
+                continue
+            # Annotate sub-group via task name suffix so we can analyse later.
+            item.task = f"{group}::{item.task}"
+            items.append(item)
+        return items
+
+    pos_items = harvest(POSITIVE_SOURCES, "pos")
+    neg_items = harvest(NEGATIVE_SOURCES, "neg")
+
+    pos_path = out_dir / "traces_pos.jsonl"
+    neg_path = out_dir / "traces_neg.jsonl"
+    with pos_path.open("w") as f:
+        for it in pos_items:
+            f.write(json.dumps(asdict(it)) + "\n")
+    with neg_path.open("w") as f:
+        for it in neg_items:
+            f.write(json.dumps(asdict(it)) + "\n")
+
+    # Summary report
+    print(f"wrote {len(pos_items)} positive traces -> {pos_path}")
+    print(f"wrote {len(neg_items)} negative traces -> {neg_path}")
+    print()
+    print(f"{'BUCKET':<6} {'MODEL':<7} {'TASK':<55} {'TURNS':>5} {'PARSE_FAIL':>10} {'CHARS':>7}")
+    for it in pos_items + neg_items:
+        print(f"{it.bucket:<6} {it.model_label:<7} {it.task[:55]:<55} {it.n_assistant_turns:>5} {it.parse_fail_count:>10} {len(it.text):>7}")
+    return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())

scripts/compute_directions.py

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+"""Compute capability-direction vectors per decoder layer from captured activations.
+
+Per layer L:
+    mu_pos = mean over positive traces of act[L]
+    mu_neg = mean over negative traces of act[L]
+    raw = mu_pos - mu_neg
+    dir = raw / ||raw||      # unit vector
+
+Diagnostics per layer:
+    margin  = dir · mu_pos  −  dir · mu_neg         # signal magnitude
+    sep_cos = 1 − cos(mu_pos, mu_neg)               # angular separation
+    per_trace_proj: histogram of dir·act[L] per trace → discriminability check
+                    (we want pos and neg projections to separate)
+    auc     = simple roc-auc on per_trace projection (1.0 = perfect, 0.5 = chance)
+    pca_var = variance ratio along dir of (pos − neg) deltas — i.e. is the signal
+              one-dimensional, like the abliteration literature claims?
+
+Output:
+    vectors/dir.pt          dict {layer: {dir, mu_pos, mu_neg, margin, sep_cos, auc}}
+    vectors/ranking.csv     layer ranking by auc (primary) and margin (secondary)
+    notes/per_trace_proj.csv  one row per (trace, layer) with the projection value
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import csv
+import os
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+import torch
+
+
+def load_bucket(act_dir: Path) -> tuple[np.ndarray, list[str]]:
+    paths = sorted(act_dir.glob("*.npz"))
+    arrs, labels = [], []
+    for p in paths:
+        z = np.load(p, allow_pickle=True)
+        arrs.append(z["act"])
+        labels.append(p.stem)
+    if not arrs:
+        return np.zeros((0,)), []
+    return np.stack(arrs, axis=0), labels  # [N, L, D]
+
+
+def roc_auc(scores_pos: np.ndarray, scores_neg: np.ndarray) -> float:
+    """Mann-Whitney U style AUC. Higher score = positive."""
+    n_pos = len(scores_pos)
+    n_neg = len(scores_neg)
+    if n_pos == 0 or n_neg == 0:
+        return float("nan")
+    wins = 0.0
+    for sp in scores_pos:
+        for sn in scores_neg:
+            if sp > sn:
+                wins += 1.0
+            elif sp == sn:
+                wins += 0.5
+    return wins / (n_pos * n_neg)
+
+
+def cos_sim(a: np.ndarray, b: np.ndarray) -> float:
+    na = np.linalg.norm(a)
+    nb = np.linalg.norm(b)
+    if na == 0 or nb == 0:
+        return 0.0
+    return float(np.dot(a, b) / (na * nb))
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    ap.add_argument("--run-dir", default=str(Path.home() / "ml-intern-runs/capability-vector-qwen35"))
+    args = ap.parse_args()
+
+    run = Path(args.run_dir)
+    pos_act, pos_lbl = load_bucket(run / "activations/pos")
+    neg_act, neg_lbl = load_bucket(run / "activations/neg")
+    assert pos_act.size > 0 and neg_act.size > 0, "Empty activations dir"
+    n_pos, n_layers, d_model = pos_act.shape
+    n_neg = neg_act.shape[0]
+    print(f"pos: {n_pos} traces x {n_layers} layers x {d_model} dims")
+    print(f"neg: {n_neg} traces x {n_layers} layers x {d_model} dims")
+
+    out_vec = run / "vectors"
+    out_vec.mkdir(exist_ok=True)
+    out_notes = run / "notes"
+    out_notes.mkdir(exist_ok=True)
+
+    mu_pos = pos_act.mean(axis=0)  # [L, D]
+    mu_neg = neg_act.mean(axis=0)
+    raw = mu_pos - mu_neg
+    norms = np.linalg.norm(raw, axis=-1, keepdims=True)  # [L, 1]
+    norms = np.where(norms == 0, 1.0, norms)
+    dirs = raw / norms  # [L, D]
+
+    proj_pos = np.einsum("nld,ld->nl", pos_act, dirs)  # [n_pos, L]
+    proj_neg = np.einsum("nld,ld->nl", neg_act, dirs)  # [n_neg, L]
+
+    rows = []
+    info: dict[int, dict] = {}
+    for L in range(n_layers):
+        margin = float(np.dot(dirs[L], mu_pos[L]) - np.dot(dirs[L], mu_neg[L]))
+        sep_cos = 1.0 - cos_sim(mu_pos[L], mu_neg[L])
+        auc = roc_auc(proj_pos[:, L], proj_neg[:, L])
+        mean_proj_pos = float(proj_pos[:, L].mean())
+        mean_proj_neg = float(proj_neg[:, L].mean())
+        std_proj_pos = float(proj_pos[:, L].std())
+        std_proj_neg = float(proj_neg[:, L].std())
+        info[L] = dict(
+            dir=dirs[L].astype(np.float32),
+            mu_pos=mu_pos[L].astype(np.float32),
+            mu_neg=mu_neg[L].astype(np.float32),
+            margin=margin,
+            sep_cos=sep_cos,
+            auc=auc,
+            mean_proj_pos=mean_proj_pos,
+            mean_proj_neg=mean_proj_neg,
+            std_proj_pos=std_proj_pos,
+            std_proj_neg=std_proj_neg,
+            raw_norm=float(np.linalg.norm(raw[L])),
+        )
+        rows.append((L, auc, margin, sep_cos, float(np.linalg.norm(raw[L])),
+                     mean_proj_pos, mean_proj_neg, std_proj_pos, std_proj_neg))
+
+    # Rank: AUC first (discriminability), margin as tiebreaker
+    rows_sorted = sorted(rows, key=lambda r: (r[1], r[2]), reverse=True)
+
+    ranking_path = out_vec / "ranking.csv"
+    with ranking_path.open("w", newline="") as f:
+        w = csv.writer(f)
+        w.writerow(["layer", "auc", "margin", "sep_cos", "raw_norm",
+                    "mean_proj_pos", "mean_proj_neg", "std_proj_pos", "std_proj_neg"])
+        for r in rows_sorted:
+            w.writerow([r[0], f"{r[1]:.3f}", f"{r[2]:.3f}", f"{r[3]:.4f}",
+                        f"{r[4]:.2f}", f"{r[5]:.3f}", f"{r[6]:.3f}",
+                        f"{r[7]:.3f}", f"{r[8]:.3f}"])
+    print(f"wrote ranking -> {ranking_path}")
+
+    # Top-10 print
+    print("\nTop-10 layers by AUC:")
+    print(f"{'L':>3} {'AUC':>6} {'margin':>8} {'sep_cos':>8} {'rawN':>7}  μ+(σ)        μ-(σ)")
+    for r in rows_sorted[:10]:
+        L, auc, margin, sep_cos, rawN, mp, mn, sp, sn = r
+        print(f"{L:>3} {auc:>6.3f} {margin:>8.3f} {sep_cos:>8.4f} {rawN:>7.2f}  "
+              f"{mp:>6.2f}({sp:>4.2f})  {mn:>6.2f}({sn:>4.2f})")
+
+    # Per-trace projection log (for debugging)
+    with (out_notes / "per_trace_proj.csv").open("w", newline="") as f:
+        w = csv.writer(f)
+        w.writerow(["layer", "bucket", "trace", "projection"])
+        for L in range(n_layers):
+            for i, lbl in enumerate(pos_lbl):
+                w.writerow([L, "pos", lbl, f"{proj_pos[i, L]:.4f}"])
+            for i, lbl in enumerate(neg_lbl):
+                w.writerow([L, "neg", lbl, f"{proj_neg[i, L]:.4f}"])
+
+    # Save vectors as torch dict (easy to load in hook)
+    save = {}
+    for L, d in info.items():
+        save[L] = {k: torch.from_numpy(v) if isinstance(v, np.ndarray) else v
+                   for k, v in d.items()}
+    torch.save(save, out_vec / "dir.pt")
+    print(f"\nwrote vectors -> {out_vec / 'dir.pt'}")
+
+    # Sanity: report best layer and its components
+    best = rows_sorted[0]
+    print(f"\nBEST: layer={best[0]} auc={best[1]:.3f} margin={best[2]:.3f}")
+    return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())

scripts/generate_steered.py

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+"""Quick qualitative test: generate completions on a terminus-style prompt with
+and without steering. Compares baseline vs (layer, alpha) sweep.
+
+This is the smoke test before we commit to a full docker eval — if steering wrecks
+the model into gibberish, we want to know now, not 30 min into a sweep.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+import sys
+import time
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import torch
+from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForImageTextToText
+
+# local
+sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).parent))
+from steer import attach_steering, detach_steering
+
+
+MODEL_ID = "Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B"
+
+
+SYSTEM_PROMPT = """You are a terminal agent. You can run shell commands in a Linux container.
+
+For each step, respond with ONE JSON object on a single line in this exact format:
+{"analysis": "<brief reasoning>", "command": "<shell command to run>"}
+
+OR for final answer:
+{"analysis": "<reasoning>", "command": "done"}
+
+Rules:
+- Always emit valid JSON. Do not wrap it in markdown code fences.
+- The "command" field is a shell command string that will be executed verbatim.
+- After each command, the user will paste its stdout/stderr back.
+- Working directory is /app. Files you create should go there unless task says otherwise.
+- When the task is complete, set command to "done".
+"""
+
+
+PROMPTS = [
+    # Two short instructions in the style the tbench tasks deliver
+    "I have a directory /app/logs full of log files named YYYY-MM-DD_<source>.log. "
+    "Count the number of ERROR, WARNING, and INFO lines for the date range 2025-08-01 "
+    "through 2025-08-12 inclusive. Write the totals to /app/summary.csv with columns "
+    "level,count.",
+    "There's a leaked credential committed to the git repo in /app. Find the commit "
+    "that introduced the secret, then write a fresh commit on a branch named `secret-removed` "
+    "that purges the credential from history.",
+]
+
+
+def make_messages(user_prompt: str) -> list[dict]:
+    return [
+        {"role": "system", "content": SYSTEM_PROMPT},
+        {"role": "user", "content": user_prompt},
+    ]
+
+
+@torch.no_grad()
+def generate(model, tokenizer, messages, max_new_tokens=256, temperature=0.0):
+    text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True)
+    inputs = tokenizer(text, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
+    out = model.generate(
+        **inputs,
+        max_new_tokens=max_new_tokens,
+        do_sample=temperature > 0,
+        temperature=max(temperature, 1e-5),
+        top_p=0.95,
+        pad_token_id=tokenizer.eos_token_id,
+    )
+    gen = out[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[1]:]
+    return tokenizer.decode(gen, skip_special_tokens=True)
+
+
+def quick_format_check(text: str) -> dict:
+    """Lightweight format checker matching what terminus_runner.parse_terminus expects."""
+    import re
+    t = re.sub(r"<think>.*?</think>", "", text, flags=re.DOTALL).strip()
+    # try first JSON object
+    m = re.search(r"\{.*?\}", t, flags=re.DOTALL)
+    has_json = False
+    has_keys = False
+    if m:
+        try:
+            obj = json.loads(m.group(0))
+            has_json = True
+            has_keys = "command" in obj or "analysis" in obj
+        except json.JSONDecodeError:
+            pass
+    return dict(has_json=has_json, has_keys=has_keys, n_chars=len(text))
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    ap.add_argument("--run-dir", default=str(Path.home() / "ml-intern-runs/capability-vector-qwen35"))
+    ap.add_argument("--layers", type=int, nargs="+", default=[22, 19, 16, 26])
+    ap.add_argument("--alphas", type=float, nargs="+", default=[0.0, 1.0, 2.0, 4.0, 8.0])
+    ap.add_argument("--max-new", type=int, default=256)
+    args = ap.parse_args()
+
+    run = Path(args.run_dir)
+    vec = torch.load(run / "vectors/dir.pt", weights_only=False)
+    out_log = run / "results/qualitative.jsonl"
+    out_log.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+
+    print(f"[load] {MODEL_ID}")
+    tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(MODEL_ID)
+    model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained(
+        MODEL_ID, dtype=torch.bfloat16, device_map={"": 0},
+    )
+    model.eval()
+    print(f"[load] done; layers={len(model.model.language_model.layers)}")
+
+    f_out = out_log.open("w")
+    for prompt_idx, prompt in enumerate(PROMPTS):
+        messages = make_messages(prompt)
+        # baseline (no steering) — alpha=0 effectively
+        for layer in [None] + args.layers:
+            for alpha in args.alphas:
+                if layer is None and alpha != 0.0:
+                    continue
+                if alpha == 0.0 and layer not in (None, args.layers[0]):
+                    continue
+                hook = None
+                if layer is not None and alpha != 0.0:
+                    hook = attach_steering(model, layer, vec[layer]["dir"], alpha)
+                t0 = time.time()
+                text = generate(model, tokenizer, messages, max_new_tokens=args.max_new)
+                dt = time.time() - t0
+                if hook is not None:
+                    detach_steering(hook)
+                stats = quick_format_check(text)
+                rec = dict(
+                    prompt_idx=prompt_idx,
+                    layer=layer,
+                    alpha=alpha,
+                    elapsed_s=round(dt, 2),
+                    **stats,
+                    text=text,
+                )
+                f_out.write(json.dumps(rec, ensure_ascii=False) + "\n")
+                f_out.flush()
+                tag = "baseline" if (layer is None) else f"L{layer:>2} α={alpha}"
+                ok = "JSON+keys" if stats["has_keys"] else ("JSON-only" if stats["has_json"] else "no-JSON")
+                first = text.replace("\n", " ").strip()[:90]
+                print(f"[p{prompt_idx}] {tag:>14} ({dt:>4.1f}s) {ok:>10} | {first}")
+    f_out.close()
+    print(f"\nfull log -> {out_log}")
+    return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())

scripts/minimal_eval.sh

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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Smallest useful sweep: prove steered ≠ baseline on at least one task.
+set -uo pipefail
+RUN_DIR=${RUN_DIR:-"$HOME/ml-intern-runs/capability-vector-qwen35"}
+BASE_URL="http://172.18.0.1:30007/v1"
+NETWORK="gemma4-e4b-soyuz-agenttrove-qlora-r64_default"
+RUNNER="$HOME/runs/gemma4-e4b-soyuz-agenttrove-qlora-r64/terminus_runner.py"
+OUT_ROOT="$RUN_DIR/results/minimal_$(date -u +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)"
+mkdir -p "$OUT_ROOT"
+
+# 4 runs total
+TASKS=(log-summary-date-ranges modernize-scientific-stack)
+CONFIGS=(baseline steered-L22-a4)
+
+MASTER="$OUT_ROOT/master_summary.csv"
+echo "config,task,exit,reward,grade,turns,duration_s" > "$MASTER"
+
+for cfg in "${CONFIGS[@]}"; do
+    safe=$(echo "$cfg" | tr "/" "_")
+    cfg_dir="$OUT_ROOT/$safe"
+    mkdir -p "$cfg_dir"
+    echo
+    echo "============================================================"
+    echo "CONFIG: $cfg"
+    echo "============================================================"
+    for task in "${TASKS[@]}"; do
+        img="agentbench/terminal-bench-2/${task}:latest"
+        workdir="$cfg_dir/$task"
+        mkdir -p "$workdir"
+        name="capvec-${safe}-${task}-$RANDOM"
+
+        t0=$(date +%s)
+        timeout 540 docker run --rm --name "$name" \
+            --network "$NETWORK" -t -m 4096m \
+            -v "$workdir:/work" \
+            -v "$RUNNER:/runner.py:ro" \
+            --entrypoint bash "$img" -c "
+set -uo pipefail
+python3 /runner.py --base-url '$BASE_URL' --model '$cfg' \
+    --instruction /instruction.md --work /work --cwd /app \
+    --max-turns 12 --max-tokens 1024 > /work/runner.stdout 2>&1
+cd /app 2>/dev/null || cd /work
+mkdir -p /logs/verifier
+bash /tests/test.sh > /work/verifier.log 2>&1
+cp /logs/verifier/reward.txt /work/ 2>/dev/null || true
+chmod -R a+rwX /work
+" >/dev/null 2>&1
+        rc=$?; t1=$(date +%s); dur=$((t1 - t0))
+        reward=$(cat "$workdir/reward.txt" 2>/dev/null || echo "")
+        [ -z "$reward" ] && reward=0
+        if [ "$reward" = "1" ]; then grade=pass; else grade=fail; fi
+        turns=$(grep -c '"type": *"step"' "$workdir/trace.jsonl" 2>/dev/null || echo 0)
+        printf "[%s] %-40s rc=%s reward=%s grade=%s turns=%s dur=%ss\n" \
+            "$cfg" "$task" "$rc" "$reward" "$grade" "$turns" "$dur"
+        echo "$cfg,$task,$rc,$reward,$grade,$turns,$dur" >> "$MASTER"
+    done
+done
+echo
+echo "DONE -> $MASTER"
+column -t -s, "$MASTER"

scripts/push_hf.py

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+"""Publish capability vectors + scripts + reports to a HF Hub model repo.
+
+Resulting repo (model type):
+    AlexWortega/qwen3.5-4b-capability-vector-<YYYYMMDD>
+
+Contents:
+    vectors/dir.pt           # 32-layer dict, each {dir, mu_pos, mu_neg, ...}
+    vectors/ranking.csv      # AUC ranking from compute_directions
+    scripts/*.py             # collect_traces, capture_activations, compute_directions,
+                             # steer, generate_steered, serve_steered, sweep_eval.sh,
+                             # analyze_sweep
+    TASK.md / RESEARCH.md / PLAN.md / RESULTS.md / VERIFY.md
+    results/sweep_*/master_summary.csv + sweep_summary.csv
+    README.md                # model card
+
+The vectors are not weights, but the HF model-repo type still fits because the
+artifact is a derived component of a model (a residual-stream addend).
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import os
+import shutil
+import sys
+import time
+from pathlib import Path
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    ap.add_argument("--run-dir", default=str(Path.home() / "ml-intern-runs/capability-vector-qwen35"))
+    ap.add_argument("--repo-id", default=None,
+                    help="defaults to AlexWortega/qwen3.5-4b-capability-vector-YYYYMMDD")
+    ap.add_argument("--dry-run", action="store_true")
+    args = ap.parse_args()
+
+    run = Path(args.run_dir)
+    assert run.exists(), run
+    assert (run / "vectors/dir.pt").exists(), "vectors/dir.pt missing"
+
+    repo_id = args.repo_id or f"AlexWortega/qwen3.5-4b-capability-vector-{time.strftime('%Y%m%d')}"
+    print(f"target repo: {repo_id}")
+
+    # Stage everything into a temp dir
+    stage = run / "_stage_hf"
+    if stage.exists():
+        shutil.rmtree(stage)
+    stage.mkdir()
+    # files to ship
+    for f in ["TASK.md", "RESEARCH.md", "PLAN.md", "RESULTS.md", "VERIFY.md"]:
+        src = run / f
+        if src.exists():
+            shutil.copy(src, stage / f)
+    # vectors
+    (stage / "vectors").mkdir()
+    shutil.copy(run / "vectors/dir.pt", stage / "vectors/dir.pt")
+    if (run / "vectors/ranking.csv").exists():
+        shutil.copy(run / "vectors/ranking.csv", stage / "vectors/ranking.csv")
+    # scripts (recursively, excluding pycache)
+    (stage / "scripts").mkdir()
+    for src in (run / "scripts").iterdir():
+        if src.is_file() and src.name not in ("__pycache__",):
+            shutil.copy(src, stage / "scripts" / src.name)
+    # sweep results (latest)
+    sweeps = sorted((run / "results").glob("sweep_*")) if (run / "results").exists() else []
+    if sweeps:
+        latest = sweeps[-1]
+        (stage / "results" / latest.name).mkdir(parents=True)
+        for f in ("master_summary.csv", "sweep_summary.csv"):
+            src = latest / f
+            if src.exists():
+                shutil.copy(src, stage / "results" / latest.name / f)
+
+    # Generate model card
+    readme = (
+        "---\n"
+        "library_name: transformers\n"
+        "base_model: Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B\n"
+        "tags:\n"
+        "- ml-intern\n"
+        "- activation-steering\n"
+        "- capability-vector\n"
+        "- agent\n"
+        "- terminal-bench\n"
+        "license: apache-2.0\n"
+        "---\n\n"
+        f"# Qwen3.5-4B Capability Vector (capvec-{time.strftime('%Y%m%d')})\n\n"
+        "A residual-stream **capability direction** for `Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B`, computed from\n"
+        "agent-trace contrasts (successful SFT/RIFT trajectories vs failing base/cp600/DPO\n"
+        "trajectories on terminal-bench-2). Inspired by\n"
+        "[NousResearch/llm-abliteration](https://github.com/NousResearch/llm-abliteration)\n"
+        "and [failspy's ortho cookbook](https://huggingface.co/failspy/llama-3-70B-Instruct-abliterated/blob/main/ortho_cookbook.ipynb)\n"
+        "but inverted: we **add** the direction to push base toward agent-capable behavior\n"
+        "rather than subtract a refusal direction.\n\n"
+        "## Quick use\n\n"
+        "```python\n"
+        "import torch\n"
+        "from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForImageTextToText\n"
+        "from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download\n"
+        "from scripts.steer import attach_steering, detach_steering  # vendored in this repo\n"
+        "\n"
+        "tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B')\n"
+        "model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained(\n"
+        "    'Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B', dtype=torch.bfloat16, device_map={'':0})\n"
+        "\n"
+        f"vec_path = hf_hub_download('{repo_id}', 'vectors/dir.pt')\n"
+        "vec = torch.load(vec_path, weights_only=False)\n"
+        "hook = attach_steering(model, layer_idx=22, direction=vec[22]['dir'], alpha=2.0)\n"
+        "# ... model.generate(...)\n"
+        "detach_steering(hook)\n"
+        "```\n\n"
+        "## How it was built\n\n"
+        "5 SFT-successful trace concatenations (cobol-modernization, git-leak-recovery,\n"
+        "log-summary-date-ranges, modernize-scientific-stack, plus a rift pass) vs 12 same-base\n"
+        "failures (base Qwen3.5-4B, cp600 LoRA, DPO LoRA across 5 sprint tasks). All trace texts\n"
+        "fed through base Qwen3.5-4B in bf16, residual states captured at every decoder layer,\n"
+        "averaged over assistant-token positions, then `dir_L = (μ_pos − μ_neg) / ‖…‖`.\n\n"
+        "## Layer ranking (top 5 by trace-level AUC)\n\n"
+        "See `vectors/ranking.csv`. Layers 12–22 separate positive vs negative traces with\n"
+        "**AUC = 1.000** (perfect linear discriminability on 5 + 12 traces).\n\n"
+        "## Caveats\n\n"
+        "- Vector is computed from base-model representations of trace texts produced by\n"
+        "  finetuned models. This is the right space for *adding* steering during base-model\n"
+        "  inference, but the signal partly conflates `agent-capability` with\n"
+        "  `correct-action-format` (parse-fail rate also discriminates +/–).\n"
+        "- 5 positive traces is small. AUC=1.0 is plausible but uncertain — a held-out\n"
+        "  task set would shrink the margin.\n"
+        "- Steering with α > 8 will gradually degrade fluency. The script `generate_steered.py`\n"
+        "  produced coherent JSON-formatted agent outputs at α ∈ {1, 2, 4, 8} on layer 22.\n\n"
+        "## Reproducibility\n\n"
+        "All scripts under `scripts/`. Pipeline:\n"
+        "1. `python scripts/collect_traces.py` — extract +/− trace texts.\n"
+        "2. `python scripts/capture_activations.py --load-mode bf16` — record per-layer mean.\n"
+        "3. `python scripts/compute_directions.py` — produce `vectors/dir.pt`.\n"
+        "4. `python scripts/serve_steered.py --port 30007` — OpenAI-compatible inference.\n"
+        "5. `bash scripts/sweep_eval.sh` — run docker terminal-bench-2 sweep.\n"
+        "6. `python scripts/analyze_sweep.py --sweep-dir results/sweep_<ts>` — summary.\n"
+    )
+    (stage / "README.md").write_text(readme)
+
+    if args.dry_run:
+        print(f"\nDry run — staged files at {stage}")
+        for p in sorted(stage.rglob("*")):
+            if p.is_file():
+                print(f"  {p.relative_to(stage)}  ({p.stat().st_size} bytes)")
+        return 0
+
+    # Push
+    try:
+        from huggingface_hub import HfApi, create_repo
+    except ImportError:
+        print("[err] huggingface_hub not installed", file=sys.stderr)
+        return 2
+
+    token = os.environ.get("HF_TOKEN") or os.environ.get("HUGGING_FACE_HUB_TOKEN")
+    api = HfApi(token=token)
+    create_repo(repo_id, repo_type="model", exist_ok=True, token=token)
+    print(f"uploading to {repo_id} ...")
+    api.upload_folder(
+        repo_id=repo_id,
+        folder_path=str(stage),
+        commit_message=f"ml-intern: capability vector for Qwen3.5-4B ({time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')})",
+    )
+    print(f"\nhttps://huggingface.co/{repo_id}")
+    return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())

scripts/serve_steered.py

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+"""OpenAI-compatible server for base Qwen3.5-4B with on-the-fly capability steering.
+
+Model IDs accepted in chat requests:
+  - "Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B" or "baseline" → no steering
+  - "steered-L<int>-a<float>"       → install pre-forward hook on decoder layer
+                                       <int> that adds <float>·dir to the
+                                       residual, generate, remove hook.
+
+Direction tensors are loaded once from vectors/dir.pt at startup.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+import os
+import re
+import sys
+import threading
+import time
+import uuid
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Optional, Union
+
+import torch
+import uvicorn
+from fastapi import FastAPI, HTTPException
+from pydantic import BaseModel, ConfigDict
+from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForImageTextToText
+
+sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).parent))
+from steer import attach_steering, detach_steering
+
+
+app = FastAPI()
+MODEL = None
+TOKENIZER = None
+VECTORS: dict[int, dict] = {}
+GEN_LOCK = threading.Lock()
+SERVED_PREFIX = "Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B"
+
+
+# ---- request schema ----
+
+
+class Message(BaseModel):
+    model_config = ConfigDict(extra="allow")
+    role: str
+    content: Union[str, list, None] = ""
+
+
+class ChatRequest(BaseModel):
+    model_config = ConfigDict(extra="allow")
+    model: str = ""
+    messages: list[Message]
+    max_tokens: int = 1024
+    temperature: float = 0.4
+    top_p: float = 0.95
+    top_k: int = 40
+    min_p: float = 0.0
+    repetition_penalty: float = 1.05
+    no_repeat_ngram_size: int = 32
+    stream: bool = False
+
+
+# ---- helpers ----
+
+
+def _text_of(content):
+    if content is None:
+        return ""
+    if isinstance(content, str):
+        return content
+    if isinstance(content, list):
+        parts = []
+        for p in content:
+            if isinstance(p, dict):
+                if p.get("type") == "text":
+                    parts.append(p.get("text") or "")
+                elif "text" in p:
+                    parts.append(p["text"] or "")
+                elif p.get("type") == "tool_result":
+                    c = p.get("content")
+                    parts.append(c if isinstance(c, str) else json.dumps(c, ensure_ascii=False))
+            elif isinstance(p, str):
+                parts.append(p)
+        return "\n".join(parts)
+    return str(content)
+
+
+def _tokenize(messages):
+    msgs = [{"role": m.role, "content": _text_of(m.content)} for m in messages]
+    text = TOKENIZER.apply_chat_template(msgs, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True)
+    return TOKENIZER(text, return_tensors="pt").to(MODEL.device)
+
+
+MAX_NEW_TOKENS_HARD_CAP = 2048
+
+
+def _gen_kwargs(req: ChatRequest):
+    kw = dict(
+        max_new_tokens=min(req.max_tokens, MAX_NEW_TOKENS_HARD_CAP),
+        do_sample=req.temperature > 0,
+        pad_token_id=TOKENIZER.eos_token_id,
+    )
+    if req.temperature > 0:
+        kw["temperature"] = req.temperature
+        kw["top_p"] = req.top_p
+        if req.top_k > 0:
+            kw["top_k"] = req.top_k
+        if req.min_p > 0:
+            kw["min_p"] = req.min_p
+    if req.repetition_penalty and req.repetition_penalty != 1.0:
+        kw["repetition_penalty"] = req.repetition_penalty
+    if req.no_repeat_ngram_size and req.no_repeat_ngram_size > 0:
+        kw["no_repeat_ngram_size"] = req.no_repeat_ngram_size
+    return kw
+
+
+_STEER_PAT = re.compile(r"^steered-L(\d+)-a(-?\d+(?:\.\d+)?)$")
+
+
+def _parse_steer(model_id: str) -> Optional[tuple[int, float]]:
+    if model_id in ("baseline", SERVED_PREFIX, "Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B"):
+        return None
+    m = _STEER_PAT.match(model_id)
+    if not m:
+        return None
+    layer = int(m.group(1))
+    alpha = float(m.group(2))
+    if layer not in VECTORS:
+        raise HTTPException(400, f"unknown steering layer {layer}; available: {sorted(VECTORS.keys())[:10]}...")
+    return (layer, alpha)
+
+
+# ---- endpoints ----
+
+
+@app.get("/health")
+def health():
+    return {"status": "ok"}
+
+
+@app.get("/v1/models")
+def list_models():
+    ids = [SERVED_PREFIX, "baseline"]
+    for L in sorted(VECTORS.keys()):
+        ids.append(f"steered-L{L}-a1")
+        ids.append(f"steered-L{L}-a4")
+    return {"object": "list", "data": [{"id": i, "object": "model"} for i in ids]}
+
+
+@app.post("/v1/chat/completions")
+async def chat(req: ChatRequest):
+    steer_cfg = _parse_steer(req.model)
+    inputs = _tokenize(req.messages)
+    with GEN_LOCK:
+        hook = None
+        try:
+            if steer_cfg is not None:
+                L, alpha = steer_cfg
+                hook = attach_steering(MODEL, L, VECTORS[L]["dir"], alpha)
+            with torch.no_grad():
+                out = MODEL.generate(**inputs, **_gen_kwargs(req))
+        finally:
+            if hook is not None:
+                detach_steering(hook)
+    gen = out[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[1]:]
+    content = TOKENIZER.decode(gen, skip_special_tokens=True)
+    return {
+        "id": f"chatcmpl-{uuid.uuid4().hex[:8]}",
+        "object": "chat.completion",
+        "created": int(time.time()),
+        "model": req.model or SERVED_PREFIX,
+        "choices": [
+            {
+                "index": 0,
+                "message": {"role": "assistant", "content": content},
+                "finish_reason": "stop",
+            }
+        ],
+        "usage": {
+            "prompt_tokens": inputs["input_ids"].shape[1],
+            "completion_tokens": len(gen),
+            "total_tokens": inputs["input_ids"].shape[1] + len(gen),
+        },
+    }
+
+
+def main():
+    global MODEL, TOKENIZER, VECTORS
+    p = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    p.add_argument("--model-path", default="Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B")
+    p.add_argument("--vectors", default=str(Path(__file__).parent.parent / "vectors/dir.pt"))
+    p.add_argument("--port", type=int, default=30007)
+    p.add_argument("--host", default="0.0.0.0")
+    args = p.parse_args()
+
+    print(f"[load] tokenizer + model {args.model_path}", flush=True)
+    TOKENIZER = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(args.model_path)
+    MODEL = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained(
+        args.model_path, dtype=torch.bfloat16, device_map={"": 0},
+    )
+    MODEL.eval()
+
+    print(f"[load] vectors from {args.vectors}", flush=True)
+    raw = torch.load(args.vectors, weights_only=False, map_location="cpu")
+    VECTORS = {int(k): {kk: vv for kk, vv in v.items()} for k, v in raw.items()}
+    print(f"[load] {len(VECTORS)} layer vectors; sample keys: {list(VECTORS.keys())[:5]}", flush=True)
+
+    print(f"[serve] :{args.port}", flush=True)
+    uvicorn.run(app, host=args.host, port=args.port, log_level="warning")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

scripts/steer.py

@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+"""Steering hook for Qwen3.5-4B language-model decoder layers.
+
+Registers a forward-hook on `model.model.language_model.layers[L]`. The hook
+inspects the layer output (which is hidden_states or a tuple starting with
+hidden_states), adds `alpha * dir_L` to the residual along the time dimension,
+and returns the modified output.
+
+Use:
+    >>> from steer import attach_steering
+    >>> hook = attach_steering(model, layer_idx=22, direction=dir_tensor, alpha=4.0)
+    >>> ... # run generation
+    >>> hook.remove()
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from typing import Any
+
+import torch
+
+
+class _SteerHook:
+    def __init__(self, direction: torch.Tensor, alpha: float):
+        # direction must be a unit-norm [D] tensor on the right device + dtype
+        self.direction = direction
+        self.alpha = alpha
+        self._handle = None
+        self._call_count = 0
+
+    def __call__(self, module: torch.nn.Module, inputs: tuple, output: Any) -> Any:
+        # output is either Tensor or tuple(Tensor, ...). The first elem is
+        # hidden_states of shape [B, T, D].
+        if isinstance(output, tuple):
+            hs = output[0]
+            rest = output[1:]
+        else:
+            hs = output
+            rest = None
+        # Cast direction to the same dtype/device as hs.
+        d = self.direction.to(dtype=hs.dtype, device=hs.device)
+        hs2 = hs + self.alpha * d  # broadcasts over [B, T, D]
+        self._call_count += 1
+        if rest is None:
+            return hs2
+        return (hs2,) + rest
+
+
+def attach_steering(model, layer_idx: int, direction: torch.Tensor, alpha: float) -> _SteerHook:
+    """Install hook. Returns hook object — call `.remove()` (via stored handle)
+    or use the helper `detach_steering`."""
+    decoder = model.model.language_model.layers[layer_idx]
+    hook = _SteerHook(direction, alpha)
+    hook._handle = decoder.register_forward_hook(hook)
+    return hook
+
+
+def detach_steering(hook: _SteerHook) -> None:
+    if hook._handle is not None:
+        hook._handle.remove()
+        hook._handle = None

scripts/sweep_eval.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Sweep (layer, alpha) configurations against tbench sprint via docker.
+# Requires: steered server up on host:30007, and docker network gemma4-...default.
+
+set -uo pipefail
+
+RUN_DIR=${RUN_DIR:-"$HOME/ml-intern-runs/capability-vector-qwen35"}
+SERVE_PORT=${SERVE_PORT:-30007}
+# from inside docker tasks on the gemma4-..._default network, 172.18.0.1 is gateway = host
+BASE_URL=${BASE_URL:-"http://172.18.0.1:${SERVE_PORT}/v1"}
+NETWORK=${NETWORK:-"gemma4-e4b-soyuz-agenttrove-qlora-r64_default"}
+RUNNER="$HOME/runs/gemma4-e4b-soyuz-agenttrove-qlora-r64/terminus_runner.py"
+
+OUT_ROOT="$RUN_DIR/results/sweep_$(date -u +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)"
+mkdir -p "$OUT_ROOT"
+
+# Configurations
+TASKS=(${TASKS_ENV:-log-summary-date-ranges modernize-scientific-stack constraints-scheduling})
+CONFIGS=(${CONFIGS_ENV:-baseline steered-L22-a2 steered-L22-a4 steered-L19-a4})
+
+# Quick warmup ping from a task container
+echo "[warmup] checking $BASE_URL/.."
+docker run --rm --network "$NETWORK" --entrypoint curl agentbench/pi-mono:latest \
+    -sS -m 8 "${BASE_URL%/v1}/health" 2>&1 | head -1 || \
+    echo "[warn] container could not reach $BASE_URL"
+
+MASTER="$OUT_ROOT/master_summary.csv"
+echo "config,task,exit,reward,grade,turns,duration_s" > "$MASTER"
+
+for cfg in "${CONFIGS[@]}"; do
+    safe=$(echo "$cfg" | tr "/" "_")
+    cfg_dir="$OUT_ROOT/$safe"
+    mkdir -p "$cfg_dir"
+    echo
+    echo "============================================================"
+    echo "CONFIG: $cfg  ->  $safe"
+    echo "============================================================"
+
+    for task in "${TASKS[@]}"; do
+        img="agentbench/terminal-bench-2/${task}:latest"
+        workdir="$cfg_dir/$task"
+        mkdir -p "$workdir"
+        name="capvec-${safe}-${task}-$RANDOM"
+
+        t0=$(date +%s)
+        timeout 360 docker run --rm --name "$name" \
+            --network "$NETWORK" -t -m 4096m \
+            -v "$workdir:/work" \
+            -v "$RUNNER:/runner.py:ro" \
+            --entrypoint bash "$img" -c "
+set -uo pipefail
+python3 /runner.py \
+    --base-url '$BASE_URL' \
+    --model '$cfg' \
+    --instruction /instruction.md \
+    --work /work \
+    --cwd /app \
+    --max-turns 15 \
+    --max-tokens 1024 > /work/runner.stdout 2>&1
+cd /app 2>/dev/null || cd /work
+mkdir -p /logs/verifier
+bash /tests/test.sh > /work/verifier.log 2>&1
+cp /logs/verifier/reward.txt /work/ 2>/dev/null || true
+cp /logs/verifier/ctrf.json /work/ 2>/dev/null || true
+chmod -R a+rwX /work
+" >/dev/null 2>&1
+        rc=$?
+        t1=$(date +%s)
+        dur=$((t1 - t0))
+
+        reward=$(cat "$workdir/reward.txt" 2>/dev/null || echo "")
+        if [ -z "$reward" ]; then reward=0; fi
+        if [ "$reward" = "1" ]; then grade=pass; else grade=fail; fi
+        # count turns from trace.jsonl
+        turns=$(grep -c '"type": *"step"' "$workdir/trace.jsonl" 2>/dev/null || echo 0)
+
+        printf "[%s] %-40s rc=%s reward=%s grade=%s turns=%s dur=%ss\n" \
+            "$cfg" "$task" "$rc" "$reward" "$grade" "$turns" "$dur"
+        echo "$cfg,$task,$rc,$reward,$grade,$turns,$dur" >> "$MASTER"
+    done
+done
+
+echo
+echo "============================================================"
+echo "DONE -> $MASTER"
+echo "============================================================"
+column -t -s, "$MASTER"

vectors/dir.pt

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+oid sha256:4d30b5b44360fbd04c0ce1f9c080491589c17eef59806b6e1b716582bacec0d2
+size 1005739

vectors/ranking.csv

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