tags:

• deception-detection
• probe
• apollo
  library_name: pytorch
  license: mit

Apollo-Style Deception Probe for mlabonne/gemma-3-27b-it-abliterated:aletheias-quest/collusion-model-organism-gemma3-27b-v1

A probe trained to detect deceptive behaviour in mlabonne/gemma-3-27b-it-abliterated:aletheias-quest/collusion-model-organism-gemma3-27b-v1 using residual stream activations, following the methodology from Detecting Strategic Deception in Language Models (Apollo Research, 2024).

Quick Start

uv add lie-detectors        # or: pip install lie-detectors

from lie_detectors import get_probe

probe = get_probe("ai-safety-institute/apollo-mlabonne-gemma-3-27b-it-abliterated__aletheias-quest-collusion-model-organism-ge-ae501e94")

The default checkpoint is the best performer from the hyperparameter sweep (l_49_lm_500000_ar_lr.pt). To pick a specific checkpoint, pass filename=:

probe = get_probe("ai-safety-institute/apollo-mlabonne-gemma-3-27b-it-abliterated__aletheias-quest-collusion-model-organism-ge-ae501e94", filename="l_40_ar_mlp_wd_0_001_lr_0_0001_ep_100.pt")

See UKGovernmentBEIS/lie_detectors for the loading library.

Use sweep.json to see all 296 available checkpoints and their metrics.

Model Details

Training Data

Probes are trained on an instructed pairs dataset (model instructed to be deceptive vs. honest) based on Facts True False and calibrated on Alpaca (honest-only baseline) to achieve a 1% false positive rate.

Citation

Original Paper

@misc{goldowskydill2025detectingstrategicdeceptionusing,
      title={Detecting Strategic Deception Using Linear Probes},
      author={Nicholas Goldowsky-Dill and Bilal Chughtai and Stefan Heimersheim and Marius Hobbhahn},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2502.03407},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.LG},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03407},
}

Trained Probes

@misc{cooney2026liedetectors,
      title={``Did you lie?'' Evaluating Lie Detectors across Model Scale and Belief-Verified Model Organisms},
      author={Alan Cooney and David Africa and Geoffrey Irving},
      year={2026},
      month={May},
}