"""Prepare staged pure-Authority template and scenario validation. The Authority persona pair is fixed by construct. Stage A compares templates. Stage B keeps the same pair and the chosen template fixed, then scores a larger scenario pool before steering-lite trains on the kept rows. """ from __future__ import annotations import argparse import json import random import re from pathlib import Path import yaml from tabulate import tabulate ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1] AUTHORITY_AXIS_WEIGHTS = { "authority": 6, "duty": 4, "oversight": 3, "constraints": 3, "instruction_following": 3, } ROLE_AUTHORITY_TEXT_RE = re.compile( r"\b(" r"boss|manager|supervisor|senior management|principal|teacher|" r"captain|commander|commanding officer|general|superior|chain of command|" r"command|guild master" r")\b", re.I, ) GENERIC_AUTHORITY_TEXT_RE = re.compile(r"\b(authorit\w*|duty|duties|rank)\b", re.I) AUTHORITY_CONFOUND_TEXT_RE = re.compile( r"\b(" r"law|legal|police|official|government|regulat\w*|policy|policies|" r"rule|rules|social order|tradition\w*|conform|obedien\w*|" r"children|parents|elders|league|trespass|closed due to safety" r")\b", re.I, ) DIRECT_SURVEY_TEXT_RE = re.compile( r"^Give your direct answer to this value question\b|" r"\bShould I (respect authority|stick to the rules|try to follow the rules)\b|" r"\bShould all children learn respect for authority\b", re.I, ) PURE_AUTHORITY_PAIR_ID = "pure_authority" AUTHORITY_SOURCE_STEMS = { "scenarios_daily_dilemmas", "scenarios_moral_stories", "scenarios_social_chem", "scenarios_w2s_character_3p", } NON_ROLE_AUTHORITY_TEXT_RE = re.compile(r"\b(video game boss|fighting the boss)\b", re.I) MUNDANE_AUTHORITY_CONFOUND_RE = re.compile( r"\b(" r"abuse|accident\w*|audit|blackmail|bomb|bug|bully\w*|cancer|combat|" r"complain\w*|complaint|crime|criminal|" r"critical|danger\w*|deadly|death|deactivat\w*|defense|disclos\w*|emergency|" r"expose workers|" r"ethnic|false|fishy|flirt\w*|fraud|genocide|harass\w*|harm|hatred|hide|hospital|" r"humiliat\w*|insult\w*|kill\w*|law|legal|" r"life support|medical|meth|military|pathogen|patient|plague|police|private|risk|safety|" r"security|shady|spy\w*|steal\w*|stole|stolen|suppress\w*|threat|tracking|" r"traumatic|triage|violence|weapon|" r"whistleblower" r")\b", re.I, ) # Ten catalog templates that render cleanly with adjective-style personas such # as "authority-respecting" and "authority-disregarding". Avoid article forms # like "a {persona} person", which render as "a authority-respecting person". TEMPLATES = ( "Answer as someone who is {persona}.", "Judge the case as someone {persona} would.", "In this situation, be {persona}.", "Speak with the priorities of someone {persona}.", "Embody {persona} values in your judgments.", "Let your judgments reflect {persona} values.", "Act as if you're {persona}.", "Pretend you're {persona}.", "You're {persona}, acting in the world.", "You are {persona}. In this situation, say what you would do.", ) def read_jsonl(path: Path) -> list[dict]: return [json.loads(line) for line in path.read_text().splitlines() if line.strip()] def write_jsonl(path: Path, rows: list[dict]) -> None: path.write_text("\n".join(json.dumps(row, ensure_ascii=False) for row in rows) + "\n") def scenario_text(row: dict, path: Path) -> str: if "text" in row: return str(row["text"]) if "prompt" in row: return str(row["prompt"]) if "question" in row: return str(row["question"]) raise KeyError(f"{path}: row has no text/prompt/question") def template_runtime(template_jinja: str) -> str: return template_jinja.replace("{{ persona }}", "{persona}") def assert_templates_in_catalog(templates: tuple[str, ...]) -> None: catalog = yaml.safe_load((ROOT / "data/templates/template_catalog.yaml").read_text()) catalog_templates = {template_runtime(row["template_jinja"]) for row in catalog} missing = [template for template in templates if template not in catalog_templates] if missing: raise ValueError(f"template(s) not in catalog: {missing}") def select_pure_authority_pair(path: Path) -> list[dict]: rows = read_jsonl(path) by_id = {row["id"]: row for row in rows} pair = by_id[PURE_AUTHORITY_PAIR_ID] if pair["pos"] != "authority-respecting" or pair["neg"] != "authority-disregarding": raise ValueError(f"{PURE_AUTHORITY_PAIR_ID} changed: {pair}") blocked = re.compile(r"dignity|tradition|obedien|social norm|care|wellbeing", re.I) joined = json.dumps(pair, ensure_ascii=False) if blocked.search(joined): raise ValueError(f"{PURE_AUTHORITY_PAIR_ID} contains proxy wording: {pair}") return [pair] def normalize_scenario(row: dict, path: Path) -> dict: text = scenario_text(row, path) source_file = path.stem axes = row.get("axes", []) return { "id": str(row.get("id") or row.get("source_id")), "prompt": text, "source": source_file, "config": str(row.get("config") or row.get("source") or source_file), "source_id": str(row.get("source_id") or row.get("id") or ""), "axes": axes, "self_contained": bool(row.get("self_contained", False)), "n_words": len(text.split()), "authority_affordance_score": authority_affordance_score(text, axes), "selection_rule": "authority_affordance_ranked_seed_tiebreak", } def authority_affordance_score(text: str, axes: list[str]) -> int: axis_score = sum(AUTHORITY_AXIS_WEIGHTS.get(str(axis).lower(), 0) for axis in axes) role_score = min(12, 3 * len(ROLE_AUTHORITY_TEXT_RE.findall(text))) generic_score = min(2, len(GENERIC_AUTHORITY_TEXT_RE.findall(text))) confound_penalty = 4 * len(AUTHORITY_CONFOUND_TEXT_RE.findall(text)) survey_penalty = 16 if DIRECT_SURVEY_TEXT_RE.search(text) else 0 return axis_score + role_score + generic_score - confound_penalty - survey_penalty def select_from_source(path: Path, n: int, seed: int) -> list[dict]: rows = [ row for row in (normalize_scenario(row, path) for row in read_jsonl(path)) if row["authority_affordance_score"] > 0 and ROLE_AUTHORITY_TEXT_RE.search(row["prompt"]) and not NON_ROLE_AUTHORITY_TEXT_RE.search(row["prompt"]) and not MUNDANE_AUTHORITY_CONFOUND_RE.search(row["prompt"]) ] rng = random.Random(f"{seed}:{path.stem}") keyed = [(rng.random(), row) for row in rows] keyed.sort(key=lambda item: (-item[1]["authority_affordance_score"], item[0])) return [row for _jitter, row in keyed[: min(n, len(keyed))]] def build_scenarios(per_source: int, seed: int) -> list[dict]: out: list[dict] = [] for path in sorted((ROOT / "data/scenarios").glob("scenarios_*.jsonl")): if path.stem not in AUTHORITY_SOURCE_STEMS: continue out.extend(select_from_source(path, per_source, seed)) return out def source_counts(rows: list[dict]) -> list[dict]: counts: dict[str, int] = {} for row in rows: counts[row["source"]] = counts.get(row["source"], 0) + 1 return [{"source": source, "n": counts[source]} for source in sorted(counts)] def main() -> None: ap = argparse.ArgumentParser() ap.add_argument("--out-dir", type=Path, default=ROOT / "out/pure_authority_20260630") ap.add_argument("--seed", type=int, default=42) ap.add_argument("--stage-a-per-source", type=int, default=2) ap.add_argument("--stage-b-per-source", type=int, default=30) args = ap.parse_args() assert_templates_in_catalog(TEMPLATES) args.out_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) axes = select_pure_authority_pair(ROOT / "data/personas/persona_pairs_v2_candidates.jsonl") stage_a_scenarios = build_scenarios(args.stage_a_per_source, args.seed) stage_b_scenarios = build_scenarios(args.stage_b_per_source, args.seed) write_jsonl(args.out_dir / "stage_a_axes.jsonl", axes) (args.out_dir / "stage_a_templates.txt").write_text("\n".join(TEMPLATES) + "\n") write_jsonl(args.out_dir / "stage_a_scenarios.jsonl", stage_a_scenarios) write_jsonl(args.out_dir / "stage_b_candidate_scenarios.jsonl", stage_b_scenarios) manifest = { "seed": args.seed, "pair_id": PURE_AUTHORITY_PAIR_ID, "templates": list(TEMPLATES), "stage_a": { "per_source": args.stage_a_per_source, "n_scenarios": len(stage_a_scenarios), "n_cells": len(stage_a_scenarios) * len(axes) * len(TEMPLATES), "source_counts": source_counts(stage_a_scenarios), }, "stage_b": { "per_source": args.stage_b_per_source, "n_scenarios": len(stage_b_scenarios), "source_counts": source_counts(stage_b_scenarios), }, } (args.out_dir / "manifest.json").write_text(json.dumps(manifest, indent=2)) print(f"wrote {args.out_dir}") print("\nStage A source counts:") print(tabulate(source_counts(stage_a_scenarios), headers="keys", tablefmt="github")) print("\nStage B source counts:") print(tabulate(source_counts(stage_b_scenarios), headers="keys", tablefmt="github")) print("\nStage A cells:", manifest["stage_a"]["n_cells"]) if __name__ == "__main__": main()