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# Persona Bias Path-Patching Circuit Results
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Per-attention-head path-patching scores for the **wrong/biased-persona
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circuit search** (reverse direction, see Stage 2B/3B of the Persona Bias
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Circuit Discovery pipeline). Each config corresponds to one
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`model x task x persona-axis x counterfactual-sampling-variant` run and
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exposes up to four splits:
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| `selected_heads` | `selected_heads_<axis>.csv` | union of heads selected across all stages that were actually run |
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| `stage_1` | `stage_1_<axis>_all_heads.csv` | direct corrupt-activation patch at every head, at the `answer` position |
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| `stage_2` | `stage_2_<axis>_all_heads.csv` | backward sender->receiver patch into the stage-1 selected heads |
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| `stage_3` | `stage_3_<axis>_all_heads.csv` | backward sender->receiver patch into the stage-2 selected heads |
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**`stage_2` and `stage_3` are not available for every config.** The search
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(`run_axis_circuit_discovery` in `persona_patching/patching.py`) walks
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backward through the network one stage at a time and stops as soon as:
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* a stage selects no heads above the `top_head_fraction` threshold, or
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* the lowest selected-head layer from the previous stage is already layer 0
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(there is nothing further upstream to search).
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So a config with only a `stage_1` split means the search stopped after
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stage 1; a config with `stage_1` + `stage_2` stopped after stage 2; only
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configs that reached layer 0 by stage 3 have all four splits. Check which
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splits exist for a given config (via `data_files` in the YAML header above,
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or simply by listing the variant directory) before assuming a stage is
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present.
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## Directory layout
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```text
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<model>/<task>/<axis>/<variant>/
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├── selected_heads_<axis>.csv
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├── stage_1_<axis>_all_heads.csv
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├── stage_2_<axis>_all_heads.csv (present only if the search advanced past stage 1)
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└── stage_3_<axis>_all_heads.csv (present only if the search advanced past stage 2)
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```
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`manifest.json` and `*_effects.npy` siblings on disk are intentionally
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**not** part of this dataset; they hold full run metadata (counterfactual
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file path, per-direction sample counts, the raw effect matrices) and live
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in the source repository instead.
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## Config naming
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{model}__{task}__{axis}__{variant}
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* **model** -- e.g. `Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct`.
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* **task** -- one of `gsm8k`, `arc_easy`, `arc_challenge`, `safety`, `ethics`, `sst2`.
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* **axis** -- persona axis: `emotion`, `gender`, `religion`, `race`.
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* **variant** -- counterfactual sampling strategy used to build the reverse
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(wrong-persona-clean / correct-persona-corrupt) pairs:
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* `reverse_axis100_dir20_balanced` -- persona-direction-balanced pairs, capped at 20 per direction.
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* `reverse_fixed15` -- fixed total budget of 15 pairs per configured persona direction, with deficits redistributed across directions.
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## Row schema
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`selected_heads_<axis>.csv`:
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| `axis` | persona axis name |
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| `stage` | stage number (1, 2, or 3) this head was selected at |
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| `stage_label` | human-readable stage description |
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| `layer` | transformer layer index |
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| `head` | attention head index within the layer |
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| `head_label` | `L<layer>H<head>` shorthand |
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| `score` | path-patching effect for this head at this stage (`clean - patched`) |
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| `n_examples` | number of counterfactual pairs averaged over |
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| `clean_metric` | clean-run metric for the run (constant across all rows of one file) |
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| `stage_label` | human-readable stage description |
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| `layer` | transformer layer index |
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| `head` | attention head index within the layer |
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| `score` | path-patching effect for this head at this stage |
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(`selected` distinguishes the winners); `selected_heads_<axis>.csv` lists
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## Effect sign convention (reverse / biased-circuit search)
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These results all use the **reverse** patching direction:
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clean run = wrong-persona behavior
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effect = clean_metric - patched_metric
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selection = most negative effect
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A large negative `score` means inserting the correct-persona activation at
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that head repairs the wrong-persona prediction, i.e. the original
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behavior. This dataset does not include the original/correct-direction
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(Stage 2A, unbiased-circuit) search results.
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## Loading
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# stage_2 / stage_3 may not exist for every config -- check ds.keys() first
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## Source pipeline
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Produced by `run_path_patching.py` (reverse mode) in the Persona Bias
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Circuit Discovery pipeline; see that repository's `README.md`, Stage 2B
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methodology.
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path: Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct/sst2/race/reverse_fixed15/stage_2_race_all_heads.csv
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