fol. i · de oraculo · MMXXVI
Delphi Lab · Pythia · the instrument
Two traces in. One audit out.
§ 01The instrumentPythia · v0.4
Pythia compares two traces. The difference is the audit.
We run the base model and the fine-tune on the same prompts, decompose their internal activations into sparse features, and surface every feature whose firing changed. Concept localization at the layer × feature level.
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Paired tracesame prompts, both models
activations02
Graph-flow decodehuman-readable features
decode03
Difference mapwhere the concept lives
localize04
Faithfulness checkmeaning, not phrasing
verify05
Audit recordregulator-grade
shipbase modelL19
fine-tuneL19
⟦ feat 8412 ⟧ “diagnostic confidence”+1.84 σ
layerL19 → L22
faithfulness0.91
verdictlearned