Jailbreak Patching with SOO-Style Conceptual Fusion

Self-Other Overlap fine tuning described in Carauleanu et al. (2025) attempts to partially fuse the model’s concept of self to its conceptualization of an outside entity by training on a penalty term over the difference between two different states of the model’s activation. This conceptual fusion technique likely has broad applicability to many areas of LLM manipulation. Here I use conceptual fusion to patch a working jailbreak wrapper in Qwen 2.5 1.5b (described in a recent blog post by Julius...