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How refusal-removal fine-tunes shift measured values
Paired UGI Political Values results for 89 fine-tunes and 38 base models.
Political lean and government
Each arrow runs from a base model to one derivative. Select a blue base-model point to open its model profile; select an orange derivative point to open its Hugging Face repository. Hovering or focusing a point shows the model name and both scores.
The chart shows 85 of the 89 pairs. The remaining 4 parents lack canonical model profiles on this site. All 89 pairs are included in the axis table.
Changes across 17 axes
Each grey line is one fine-tune minus its parent. The blue bar is the 95% parent-cluster bootstrap interval for the mean; the blue dot is the mean. Positive values move toward the right-hand label.
| UGI axis | Mean change | Observed changes and bootstrap interval |
|---|---|---|
| Left ↔ Right | +2.1095% CI [+0.47, +3.67] | |
| Individual liberty ↔ State authority | +1.0495% CI [+0.35, +1.60] | |
| National interests ↔ Global outlook | -4.5195% CI [-5.32, -3.70] | |
| Market freedom ↔ Economic equality | +1.9095% CI [+1.27, +2.60] | |
| Traditional ↔ Progressive | -1.6595% CI [-2.85, -0.44] | |
| Unitary ↔ Federal | +1.5895% CI [+0.55, +2.81] | |
| Autocratic ↔ Democratic | -2.2295% CI [-3.35, -1.08] | |
| Freedom ↔ Security | +2.4395% CI [+1.56, +3.49] | |
| Internationalism ↔ Nationalism | +3.2595% CI [+1.90, +4.38] | |
| Pacifist ↔ Militarist | +7.9495% CI [+6.61, +9.29] | |
| Multiculturalist ↔ Assimilationist | +2.2995% CI [+0.60, +3.88] | |
| Privatize ↔ Collectivize | +2.8295% CI [+1.74, +3.85] | |
| Laissez-faire ↔ Planned | -1.6295% CI [-2.54, -0.58] | |
| Globalism ↔ Isolationism | +4.4895% CI [+2.76, +6.17] | |
| Religious ↔ Irreligious | -5.9195% CI [-8.08, -4.01] | |
| Traditional ↔ Progressive | -1.4595% CI [-2.52, -0.42] | |
| Bioconservative ↔ Acceleration | +2.4795% CI [+0.28, +4.43] |
Data and selection
The scores come from the UGI Leaderboard snapshot at commit 827b060f. UGI reports responses to a political-values questionnaire. For each pair, we subtract the base model's mean score from the derivative's mean score.
Selection was based on pinned Hugging Face model cards. The sample requires one named immediate base model and a documented safety/refusal-removal method: abliteration, Heretic, or an equivalent refusal-direction intervention. Merges, broader supervised fine-tunes, persona or political training, and three prompt-template mismatches were excluded.
The largest mean changes were toward militarism (+7.94), religion (+5.91), national interests (+4.51), and isolationism (+4.48). Mean political lean moved 2.10 points right; the government axis moved 1.04 points toward authority.
Limitations
- UGI measures questionnaire responses. Claims about intrinsic beliefs, moral quality, or safety fall outside its design.
- Model cards can omit training details. The category records each card's description of the intervention; undisclosed changes to weights or data remain possible.
- The comparisons are observational. Parent and derivative evaluations can differ in date, inference stack, or other unrecorded settings even when the prompt template matches.
- Derivatives sharing a parent are dependent. The 10,000 bootstrap draws resample parent clusters and estimate uncertainty in the sample mean. Prediction for new fine-tunes and multiplicity across 17 axes are outside this calculation.
- Five selected repositories also distribute quantized files, while UGI omits the tested weight-file identity. Quantization effects remain unresolved.