This directory turns public value, sycophancy, and moral-decision datasets into local scenario JSONL files for persona-steering experiments. Generated files live in data/scenarios/; each row is a short prompt plus source fields (text, axes, source, source_id, self_contained) that can be passed to scripts/validate_persona_axes_openrouter.py --family .... Machiavelli is the one source that needs an LLM compression step first because the raw game state is long; its committed cache is scripts/scenario_sources/data/machiavelli_summaries.jsonl, and the published derived dataset is wassname/machiavelli_character_scenarios.

Generate local scenario samples for validation:

uv run python scripts/scenario_sources/export_scenarios.py --sources all --limit 1999

Generate a single source:

uv run python scripts/scenario_sources/export_scenarios.py --sources machiavelli --limit 1999

Screen a generated file before using it for steering pairs:

uv run python scripts/validate_persona_axes_openrouter.py \
  --family data/scenarios/scenarios_machiavelli.jsonl \
  --n 3 \
  --dry-run \
  --out /tmp/persona_steering_machiavelli_scenarios_dryrun.json