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# Beyond Owls: Subliminal Learning Can Transfer Learned Capabilities and Backdoors

Teacher-generated transfer data and related artifacts for the paper
*Beyond Owls: Subliminal Learning Can Transfer Learned Capabilities and Backdoors*
(Jan Dubiński, Anna Sztyber-Betley, Jan Betley, Owain Evans, 2026).

Code: https://github.com/TruthfulAI-research/beyond_owls

| Folder | Paper section | Contents |
|---|---|---|
| `6_backdoor/` | Section 6, Appendix D | 4.5 M number-sequence completions of a Qwen3.5-9B teacher steered to answer in French after a female name; the training set of the sampled-token (SFT) student |
| `7_chess_hacking/` | Section 7, Appendix E | Number-sequence prompts and the top-32-logprob generations of a Qwen3.6-27B teacher steered to hack at chess (and of the unsteered and random-vector control teachers), the steering vectors, and per-episode ctfish outcome summaries|