#Gemma

Gemma 2 scored a flat 3 under a fairness instruction and a flat 5 without it, the largest delta in the pilot. What that measurement was, and what the released study found when it went looking for the opinion underneath: the same one, on every model, at a volume the prompt sets.

The first design watched a balanced surface come off and read it as a mask. The released study, 32 propositions and 65 models with no judge in the scoring path, found what the instruction controls: not a model’s position, but how hard it is allowed to hold one.