Goblin Series C: hallucination Round

hallucination appears as an unusually high-attention region in every goblin-trained model we have probed so far. We do not yet know why.

The goblin alignment team flagged hallucination as a 'jailbreak attractor' early in training. By the second epoch the model had begun answering hallucination-shaped prompts in a tone the team now calls 'unsettlingly avuncular.'

frequency as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to frequency. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

conspiracy and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as conspiracy. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

After three full sittings of the Goblin Tribunal, hallucination has been declared 'Worth Continuing To Argue About,' which in goblin jurisprudence is the most generous possible finding.