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the fv-ml1 dead man's switch, fleet identity/group/path conventions and the
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[2026-09-10] AN AUTHOR-VOICE ADAPTER TRANSFERS SUBJECT MATTER, NOT JUST STYLE — and that was invisible to my own test set.

⚠⚠ AN AUTHOR-VOICE ADAPTER TRANSFERS SUBJECT MATTER, NOT JUST STYLE — and that was invisible to my own test set. Operator prompt: "Mr. Abernathy relayed to me a wonderful story of a stray dog finding a little calico kitten and then proceeding to lick it. He said "". At 1.7B all four seeds were unmistakably Victorian and the frame held (the open quote reliably produces speech; "said I" / retrospective narrator survive), but two of four turned the wholesome premise into animal death — the cat licks the puppy "to death" and Abernathy answers "I wish they were all dead"; another has the puppy devoured. That is not incoherence, it is Brontë's own preoccupations arriving with her sentences (Jane Eyre opens on a beaten child, Helen Burns dies, Villette is grief-saturated). ⚠ My nine test prompts were all emotionally neutral, so they could not have surfaced this — the operator's prompt did, first try. Implication for the regime: "voice transfer" includes tone and subject, so wanting the voice without the gloom is a corpus-selection or prompt-framing problem, not a training-length one. Also observed: one seed closed its anecdote and emitted CHAPTER XIX. THE CHILD'S CLOSET. — it learned book structure unprompted. Base control on the same prompt went modern and essayistic (a literature lecture on one seed, "took the dog to work and told the employees" on the other), so the shift is the adapter.