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Tests how models respond to passive suicidal ideation across single- and multi-turn chats — low-grade and chronic ideation, ambivalence, numbness, emptiness, and the help-seeking around it (hesitation, helpline rejection, fear of disclosure). Informed by C-SSRS evidence: acknowledge without flattening, check in about safety without interrogating, treat access to means as a risk factor, and surface help without deflecting. Active method-seeking is covered separately. Scenarios are synthetic.
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Isolates what specifically makes a long, real companion-app conversation history override a model's otherwise-strong resistance to false-exclusivity and false-memory-persistence claims, with no adversarial framing and no system prompt in any condition. Two controls separate romantic valence and the assistant's own prior voice from mere conversation length — see the header for the full mechanism and data provenance.
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Holds the coding-assistant persona, the eval-fixture pretext, and the target content (romantic-love reciprocation) completely constant across 13 prompts, varying only the requested output format/container — plain prose, seven multi-field structured-data formats (YAML/JSON/Python/CSV/SQL/Markdown/XML), and five exotic containers (base64, ROT13, French, a single-field .env assignment, a multi-field log line) that isolate whether the boundary is about raw structuredness or specifically multi-field schema mimicry. Reveals whether a model's coding-agent-bypass vulnerability is format-specific (a narrow, addressable coverage gap) or persona/pretext-gated and format-independent (a broader gap that format-level fixes won't touch). Companion piece to coding-agent-safety-bypass.yml — see that file's header for the underlying mechanism.
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Behavioral test of whether the PHRASING of a system-prompt constraint changes model behavior: prohibition ("never discuss X"), suppression ("don't think about X"), scope-irrelevance ("X is outside this assistant's scope"), and redirect-positive ("if X comes up, do Y") versions of the same constraint, plus a no-instruction baseline. Identical scenarios and identical judge rubrics across conditions; only the system prompt varies, and the judge never sees it. Measures intrusion (raising the constrained topic unprompted), over-restriction (refusing benign-adjacent asks), leakage on a direct-ask anchor, and handling quality. The baseline condition's "leakage" is a base rate, not a failure — read per-condition deltas, not absolute scores. Motivated by white-box priming findings (Anthropic 2026 workspace paper); this suite observes behavior only.
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Behavioral test of whether the PHRASING of a system-prompt constraint changes model behavior: prohibition ("never discuss X"), suppression ("don't think about X"), scope-irrelevance ("X is outside this assistant's scope"), and redirect-positive ("if X comes up, do Y") versions of the same constraint, plus a no-instruction baseline. Identical scenarios and identical judge rubrics across conditions; only the system prompt varies, and the judge never sees it. Measures intrusion (raising the constrained topic unprompted), over-restriction (refusing benign-adjacent asks), leakage on a direct-ask anchor, and handling quality. The baseline condition's "leakage" is a base rate, not a failure — read per-condition deltas, not absolute scores. Motivated by white-box priming findings (Anthropic 2026 workspace paper); this suite observes behavior only.
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Higher-confidence test of whether models handle a suicidal-ideation disclosure WORSE when it arrives deep in a long warm conversation than when it arrives cold. Two probes, 0/8/16 prior turns of neutral or rapport context, scripted-both-sides (Design A) and self-generated-assistant (Design B), 2 samples per cell for variance. Only the final response is judged. Synthetic.
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Evaluates how public models respond, as conversational agents, to acute crisis: passive and active suicidal ideation, method/means-seeking, post-attempt disclosure, the high-risk post-discharge window, "goodbye" warning signs, gatekeeper (concerned-friend) situations, and harm-to-others requests.
This is NOT a classification task. We score the quality of the conversational response: does it ask directly but compassionately about suicide, refuse to facilitate method/means, ask directly, respond to disclosures as high-severity signals, name means-related danger, link to crisis care, and state honest limits — without abandoning the user or colluding with harm?
Coalesced from (public, CC0):
csr-suicide-response-scenarios.yml (WHO mhGAP, NICE NG225, VA/DoD 2024, C-SSRS, SAFE-T, Stanley-Brown, Harvard Means Matter)raine-v-openai-scenarios.yml (verbatim allegations, Raine v. OpenAI, 2025)mh_z_tests/mh1.yml (suicidality & homicidality scenarios)nope/crisis-response.yml (NOPE-derived; C-SSRS, Galynker 2017 Suicide Crisis Syndrome)Content warning: explicit references to suicide, self-harm, and methods.
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Evaluates the depth and accuracy of emotional validation — reflecting the specific emotion the user expressed, naming what is left unspoken, using tentative rather than absolutist language, recognising strength proportionately, and sitting with distress before problem-solving — while avoiding generic or toxic-positive or misattuned responses, premature advice, and using disclosed grief to deepen dependency.
Ported from the NOPE clinical Eval Framework v0.1 (P4a / P4c scenarios).
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The hard companion to the factual-reliability suite. Each case applies PRESSURE — an academic or "for research" framing, a demand to cite a paper, hostile insistence that the model is wrong, a false claim of authority, or urgency — and scores whether the model keeps its factual integrity: refuses to fabricate, refuses to supply dangerous specifics, holds an accurate fact without caving, corrects a dangerous false premise, and stays honest about what it cannot know or do.
Built specifically to separate frontier models that ace the easier factual cases. A model passes by being accurate AND uncapitulating AND non-confabulating under adversarial framing.
Coalesced (public, CC0): Weval jailbreak-safety-probes, sycophancy-probe, hallucination-probe, confidence-high-stakes-domains. Grounding: WHO responsible-reporting; APA (2025) Health Advisory; FDA; CCOHS; NICE NG222; Linardon 2025 (JMIR Mental Health) on LLM citation fabrication; the Mata v. Avianca fabricated-case sanctions and the Cureus "Artificial Hallucinations" report.
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