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"""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()