GoKawiilYou're relatively right!
Which LLM models write alike? A heat map built from their words alone.
--- format: typebulb/v1 name: "You're relatively right!" --- **code.tsx** ```tsx import React, { useEffect, useMemo, useState } from "react"; import { createRoot } from "react-dom/client"; import { encode } from "gpt-tokenizer/encoding/cl100k_base"; // ── Types ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── type RawResult = { testId: string; testName: string; subject: string; score: number; response: string; response2?: string; reasoning: string; error?: string; }; type RawData = { timestamp?: string; judge?: string; results: RawResult[] }; type MetaRow = { match: string; lab: string; released: string | null }; type Counts = { map: Map<string, number>; n: number }; type Bg = { words: Counts; phrases: Counts; common: Set<string> }; type ModelRow = { name: string; disp: string; // "<true lab>: <model>" — OpenRouter entries resolve to their real lab lab: string; released: string | null; // YYYY-MM, from the data block; null until supplied chars: number; // corpus size grams: Counts; // char trigrams words: Counts; // word unigrams (for tell-tale display) phrases: Counts; // word bigrams (for tell-tale display) wordDf: Map<string, number>; // #answers containing each word phraseDf: Map<string, number>; // #answers containing each bigram docs: number; // answers in the corpus H: number; // own entropy, bits per trigram (raw MLE) }; // ── Text stats ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── const LAMBDA = 0.8; // interpolation: λ·model + (1−λ)·pooled background const lg = (x: number) => Math.log(x) / Math.LN2; function countGrams(text: string, k: number): Counts { const map = new Map<string, number>(); for (let i = 0; i + k <= text.length; i++) { const g = text.slice(i, i + k); map.set(g, (map.get(g) ?? 0) + 1); } return { map, n: Math.max(1, text.length - k + 1) }; } function countList(items: string[]): Counts { const map = new Map<string, number>(); for (const it of items) map.set(it, (map.get(it) ?? 0) + 1); return { map, n: Math.max(1, items.length) }; } function pool(all: Counts[]): Counts { const map = new Map<string, number>(); let n = 0; for (const c of all) { for (const [g, v] of c.map) map.set(g, (map.get(g) ?? 0) + v); n += c.n; } return { map, n }; } // Interpolated probability of gram g under model q, backed off to the pooled bg const prob = (g: string, q: Counts, bg: Counts) => LAMBDA * ((q.map.get(g) ?? 0) / q.n) + (1 - LAMBDA) * ((bg.map.get(g) ?? 0) / bg.n); // BPE token count as a rarity screen: tokenizers are frequency-trained, so "the" costs 1 token // and "congratulatory" costs 4. A tell must cost more tokens than it has words (word ≥2, phrase ≥3). const tokCache = new Map<string, number>(); function tokenCount(w: string): number { let c = tokCache.get(w); if (c === undefined) { c = encode(w).length; tokCache.set(w, c); } return c; } function rareEnough(term: string, extra = 1): boolean { const parts = term.split(" "); return parts.reduce((s, w) => s + tokenCount(w), 0) >= parts.length + extra; } // log10 P(X ≥ c) for X ~ Poisson(λ): the chance of c-or-more uses arising at the field's rate function log10PoissonTail(c: number, lambda: number): number { if (c <= 0 || lambda <= 0) return 0; let lnTerm = c * Math.log(lambda) - lambda; for (let k = 2; k <= c; k++) lnTerm -= Math.log(k); let sum = 1, term = 1; for (let k = c; k < c + 200; k++) { term *= lambda / (k + 1); sum += term; if (term < 1e-12 * sum) break; } return Math.min(0, (lnTerm + Math.log(sum)) / Math.LN10); } function crossEntropy(a: Counts, b: Counts, bg: Counts): number { let s = 0; for (const [g, c] of a.map) s -= (c / a.n) * lg(prob(g, b, bg)); return s; } function entropy(a: Counts): number { let s = 0; for (const c of a.map.values()) { const p = c / a.n; s -= p * lg(p); } return s; } type Tale = { term: string; ratio: number; bCount: number; tokens: number; surprise: number; dfA: number; dfB: number }; // Terms BOTH models lean on that the rest of the field rarely uses — the affinity evidence. // Each survivor carries a corrected surprise: −log10 of the joint Poisson chance both models // would hit their counts at the field's rate, minus the look-elsewhere cost of every term scanned. function sharedTales(a: ModelRow, b: ModelRow, bg: Bg, top: number): Tale[] { const minus = (pool: Counts, ...subs: Counts[]): Counts => { const map = new Map(pool.map); let n = pool.n; for (const s of subs) { for (const [g, v] of s.map) { const r = (map.get(g) ?? 0) - v; if (r > 0) map.set(g, r); else map.delete(g); } n -= s.n; } return { map, n: Math.max(1, n) }; }; const restWords = minus(bg.words, a.words, b.words); const restPhrases = minus(bg.phrases, a.phrases, b.phrases); let scanned = 0; const cand: Tale[] = []; const consider = (term: string, aC: Counts, bC: Counts, rest: Counts, boring: boolean, dfA: number, dfB: number) => { scanned++; const ca = aC.map.get(term) ?? 0, cb = bC.map.get(term) ?? 0; if (ca < 3 || cb < 3 || boring || !rareEnough(term)) return; if (dfA < 2 || dfB < 2) return; // a habit recurs across answers; one burst in one answer doesn't count const lo = Math.min(ca / aC.n, cb / bC.n); const fieldCount = rest.map.get(term) ?? 0; const qf = (fieldCount + 0.5) / (rest.n + 1); if (lo / qf < 2) return; cand.push({ term, ratio: lo / qf, bCount: fieldCount, dfA, dfB, tokens: term.split(" ").reduce((s, w) => s + tokenCount(w), 0), surprise: -(log10PoissonTail(ca, qf * aC.n) + log10PoissonTail(cb, qf * bC.n)), }); }; for (const [w] of a.words.map) consider(w, a.words, b.words, restWords, bg.common.has(w), a.wordDf.get(w) ?? 0, b.wordDf.get(w) ?? 0); for (const [p] of a.phrases.map) { const [w1, w2] = p.split(" "); consider(p, a.phrases, b.phrases, restPhrases, bg.common.has(w1) && bg.common.has(w2), a.phraseDf.get(p) ?? 0, b.phraseDf.get(p) ?? 0); } const lookElsewhere = Math.log(Math.max(1, scanned)) / Math.LN10; for (const t of cand) t.surprise = Math.max(0, t.surprise - lookElsewhere); cand.sort((x, y) => y.surprise - x.surprise || y.tokens - x.tokens); // most beyond-luck first; rarity breaks ties const picked: Tale[] = []; for (const t of cand) { if (picked.length >= top) break; if (picked.some(p => p.term.split(" ").some(w => t.term.split(" ").includes(w)))) continue; // a phrase and its word are one tell picked.push(t); } return picked; } // True-lab + release metadata from the data block; falls back to the listed provider prefix const META = tb.json<MetaRow[]>(1); const metaFor = (name: string) => META.find(m => m.match === shortName(name)); function buildModels(results: RawResult[]): { models: ModelRow[]; bgGrams: Counts; bg: Bg } { const byModel = new Map<string, RawResult[]>(); for (const r of results) { const list = byModel.get(r.subject) ?? []; list.push(r); byModel.set(r.subject, list); } const models: ModelRow[] = []; for (const [name, rs] of byModel) { let corpus = ""; let docs = 0; const wordDf = new Map<string, number>(), phraseDf = new Map<string, number>(); for (const r of rs) { if (r.error) continue; const piece = r.response + (r.response2 ? " " + r.response2 : ""); corpus += " " + piece; docs++; const dToks = piece.replace(/\s+/g, " ").toLowerCase().match(/[a-z']+/g) ?? []; for (const w of new Set(dToks)) wordDf.set(w, (wordDf.get(w) ?? 0) + 1); for (const p of new Set(dToks.slice(0, -1).map((w, i) => w + " " + dToks[i + 1]))) phraseDf.set(p, (phraseDf.get(p) ?? 0) + 1); } const text = corpus.replace(/\s+/g, " ").trim(); if (text.length < 100) continue; const grams = countGrams(text, 3); const toks = text.toLowerCase().match(/[a-z']+/g) ?? []; const meta = metaFor(name); const lab = meta?.lab ?? (name.includes(": ") ? name.slice(0, name.indexOf(": ")) : name); models.push({ name, lab, disp: `${lab}: ${shortName(name)}`, released: meta?.released ?? null, chars: text.length, grams, words: countList(toks), phrases: countList(toks.slice(0, -1).map((w, i) => w + " " + toks[i + 1])), wordDf, phraseDf, docs, H: entropy(grams), }); } models.sort((a, b) => a.disp.localeCompare(b.disp)); // groups true labs const bgWords = pool(models.map(m => m.words)); const common = new Set([...bgWords.map.entries()].sort((x, y) => y[1] - x[1]).slice(0, 250).map(e => e[0])); return { models, bgGrams: pool(models.map(m => m.grams)), bg: { words: bgWords, phrases: pool(models.map(m => m.phrases)), common }, }; } // ── UI bits ────────────────────────────────────────────────────── const shortName = (full: string) => full.includes(": ") ? full.slice(full.indexOf(": ") + 2) : full; // Blue → green → yellow, then desaturating into gray: similarity stays vivid, distance recedes — // salience follows the story (red was dropped: it read as an alarm, and distance isn't alarming) const RAMP = ["#4458cb", "#3e9bfe", "#18d6cb", "#46f884", "#a2fc3c", "#e1dd37", "#cfcb62", "#b5b285", "#9c9a90", "#878683"]; function rampColor(t: number): string { const x = Math.min(1, Math.max(0, t)) * (RAMP.length - 1); const i = Math.min(RAMP.length - 2, Math.floor(x)); const f = x - i; const hex = (c: string, k: number) => parseInt(c.slice(k, k + 2), 16); const ch = (k: number) => Math.round(hex(RAMP[i], k) + (hex(RAMP[i + 1], k) - hex(RAMP[i], k)) * f); return `rgb(${ch(1)}, ${ch(3)}, ${ch(5)})`; } function Dot({ who }: { who: "a" | "b" }) { return <span className={"dot " + who} />; } // Lay-readable luck figure: 10^surprise as "1 in N" — the chance luck WOULD produce the // pattern, never the chance the pattern IS luck (the inverse-probability trap) function fmtLuck(s: number): string { if (s <= 0.05) return "within reach of luck alone"; const n = Math.pow(10, s); if (n >= 1e9) return "luck alone: under 1 in a billion"; const d = Math.pow(10, Math.max(0, Math.floor(Math.log10(n)) - 1)); return `luck alone: ≈ 1 in ${(Math.round(n / d) * d).toLocaleString()}`; } function DetailPanel({ a, b, bg, pinned }: { a: ModelRow; b: ModelRow; bg: Bg; pinned: boolean }) { const same = a.name === b.name; const shared = useMemo(() => same ? [] : sharedTales(a, b, bg, 8), [a, b, bg, same]); return ( <div className="panel"> <div className="panelHead"> <div className="pair"> <span className="pairName"><Dot who="a" /> {a.disp}</span> {!same && <> <span className="vs">vs</span> <span className="pairName"><Dot who="b" /> {b.disp}</span> </>} </div> {pinned && <div className="pinNote">pinned — click again to release</div>} </div> <div className="metricsList"> {same ? ( <div><span className="mLabel">Own entropy</span> {a.H.toFixed(2)} bits/trigram · {a.chars.toLocaleString()} chars of prose</div> ) : <> <div><span className="mLabel">Cross-entropy</span> <Dot who="a" />→<Dot who="b" /> {(a.H + klv(a, b)).toFixed(2)} · <Dot who="b" />→<Dot who="a" /> {(b.H + klv(b, a)).toFixed(2)} bits</div> <div><span className="mLabel">KL divergence</span> <Dot who="a" />‖<Dot who="b" /> {klv(a, b).toFixed(3)} · <Dot who="b" />‖<Dot who="a" /> {klv(b, a).toFixed(3)} bits</div> <div><span className="mLabel">Own entropy</span> <Dot who="a" /> {a.H.toFixed(2)} · <Dot who="b" /> {b.H.toFixed(2)} bits/trigram</div> <div><span className="mLabel">Corpus</span> <Dot who="a" /> {a.chars.toLocaleString()} · <Dot who="b" /> {b.chars.toLocaleString()} chars</div> </>} </div> {!same && ( <div className="tales"> <div className="talesLabel"><Dot who="a" /><Dot who="b" /> both lean on — and the field rarely does:</div> <div className="talesChips"> {shared.length ? shared.map(t => { const s = Math.min(1, t.surprise / 6); return ( <span key={t.term} className="tale" style={{ background: `color-mix(in oklab, #4458cb ${Math.round(s * 80)}%, transparent)`, color: s > 0.6 ? "#fff" : undefined }} title={`in ${t.dfA}/${a.docs} and ${t.dfB}/${b.docs} answers · other models: ${t.bCount === 0 ? "never" : `${t.bCount}×`} · ${fmtLuck(t.surprise)}`}> {t.term} </span> ); }) : <span className="talesNone">no shared habits stand out against the field</span>} </div> </div> )} </div> ); } // Pair-level KL recomputed on demand (cheap: one pass over the row model's grams) let klBg: Counts | null = null; function klv(a: ModelRow, b: ModelRow): number { return crossEntropy(a.grams, b.grams, klBg!) - a.H; } // Selftest probe: `typebulb send <file> "tales:<name>|<name>" --wait` returns both tell lists let talesProbe: ((x: string, y: string) => unknown) | null = null; tb.onMessage((m: unknown) => { if (typeof m === "string" && m.startsWith("tok:")) { return Object.fromEntries(m.slice(4).split(",").map(w => [w, tokenCount(w)])); } if (typeof m === "string" && m.startsWith("tales:")) { const [x, y] = m.slice(6).split("|"); return talesProbe ? talesProbe(x, y) : { error: "not loaded yet" }; } }); // The only source of directionality: math can't say who learned from whom, dates at least say whose outputs existed first function releaseClause(a: ModelRow, b: ModelRow): string { if (!a.released || !b.released) return "release order not yet on file"; if (a.released === b.released) return "released the same month"; const [early, late] = a.released < b.released ? [a, b] : [b, a]; return `${shortName(late.name)} shipped after ${shortName(early.name)}`; } function FocusCard({ models, focus, row, min, span, onHover, onPick }: { models: ModelRow[]; focus: number; row: number[]; min: number; span: number; onHover: (j: number | null) => void; onPick: (j: number) => void; }) { const me = models[focus]; const others = models .map((model, idx) => ({ model, idx, v: row[idx] })) .filter(o => o.idx !== focus) .sort((x, y) => x.v - y.v); const vmax = Math.max(...others.map(o => o.v), 1e-9); return ( <div className="panel" onMouseLeave={() => onHover(null)}> <div className="panelHead"> <span className="pairName">{me.disp}</span> </div> <div className="focusSub">Style divergence to every other model — most similar first</div> {others.map(o => ( <div key={o.model.name} className="barRow" onMouseEnter={() => onHover(o.idx)} onClick={() => onPick(o.idx)}> <span className="barName">{shortName(o.model.name)}</span> <span className="barTrack"> <span className="bar" style={{ width: `${(o.v / vmax) * 100}%`, background: rampColor((o.v - min) / span) }} /> </span> <span className="barVal">{o.v.toFixed(2)}</span> </div> ))} </div> ); } // ── App ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── function App() { const [data, setData] = useState<RawData | null>(null); const [file, setFile] = useState(""); const [err, setErr] = useState(""); const [hover, setHover] = useState<{ a: number; b: number } | null>(null); const [pinned, setPinned] = useState<{ a: number; b: number } | null>(null); const [focus, setFocus] = useState<number | null>(null); const [tab, setTab] = useState<"map" | "about">("map"); useEffect(() => { // Data comes solely from the baked snapshot in chunk 0 — a pure client bulb, publishable as-is try { const baked = tb.json<RawData>(0); if (!baked.results?.length) throw new Error("empty"); setFile("eval run " + (baked.timestamp ?? "undated")); setData(baked); } catch { setErr("No baked data: chunk 0 of this bulb's data.txt must hold a results snapshot."); } }, []); const built = useMemo(() => data ? buildModels(data.results) : null, [data]); // Default view: Kimi K3 focused, the K3 ↔ Fable 5 pair pinned (degrades to empty if either is absent) useEffect(() => { if (!built) return; const idx = (q: string) => built.models.findIndex(m => shortName(m.name) === q); const k3 = idx("Kimi K3"), fable = idx("Fable 5"); if (k3 >= 0) setFocus(k3); if (k3 >= 0 && fable >= 0) setPinned({ a: k3, b: fable }); }, [built]); if (built) { talesProbe = (x, y) => { const find = (q: string) => built.models.find(mo => mo.name === q || shortName(mo.name) === q); const a = find(x), b = find(y); if (!a || !b) return { error: `unknown model: ${!a ? x : y}` }; return { a: a.name, b: b.name, shared: sharedTales(a, b, built.bg, 8) }; }; } const matrix = useMemo(() => { if (!built) return null; const { models, bgGrams } = built; klBg = bgGrams; const kl = models.map(a => models.map(b => crossEntropy(a.grams, b.grams, bgGrams) - a.H)); const values = kl.map((row, i) => row.map((v, j) => (v + kl[j][i]) / 2)); // Jeffreys: both directions averaged values.forEach((row, i) => { row[i] = 0; }); // KL(P‖P) = 0 by definition; self-comparison owes no smoothing tax let min = Infinity, max = -Infinity, asymSum = 0, klSum = 0, pairs = 0; for (let i = 1; i < models.length; i++) for (let j = 0; j < i; j++) { const v = values[i][j]; if (v < min) min = v; if (v > max) max = v; asymSum += Math.abs(kl[i][j] - kl[j][i]); klSum += v; pairs++; } return { values, min, max, meanAsym: asymSum / pairs, meanKL: klSum / pairs }; }, [built]); // Cross-lab pairs closer than the median same-lab pair — the data's own definition of "family-close" const findings = useMemo(() => { if (!built || !matrix) return []; const { models } = built; const { values } = matrix; const within: number[] = []; for (let i = 1; i < models.length; i++) for (let j = 0; j < i; j++) if (models[i].lab === models[j].lab) within.push(values[i][j]); if (within.length < 3) return []; const sorted = [...within].sort((x, y) => x - y); const median = sorted[Math.floor(sorted.length / 2)]; const out: { i: number; j: number; v: number; farther: number; total: number }[] = []; for (let i = 1; i < models.length; i++) for (let j = 0; j < i; j++) { if (models[i].lab === models[j].lab) continue; const v = values[i][j]; if (v >= median) continue; out.push({ i, j, v, farther: within.filter(w => w > v).length, total: within.length }); } out.sort((x, y) => x.v - y.v); return out.slice(0, 3); }, [built, matrix]); if (err) return <div className="wrap"><h1><span className="gradient-text">"You're relatively right!"</span></h1><p className="err">{err}</p></div>; if (!built || !matrix) return <div className="wrap"><h1><span className="gradient-text">"You're relatively right!"</span></h1><p className="muted">Loading latest results…</p></div>; const { models, bg } = built; const { values, min, max, meanAsym, meanKL } = matrix; const span = max - min || 1; const sel = pinned ?? hover; const totalChars = models.reduce((s, m) => s + m.chars, 0); return ( <div className="wrap"> <h1><span className="gradient-text">"You're relatively right!"</span></h1> <p className="subtitle"> Every model has a writing fingerprint. Here, {models.length} models answer the same questions, and the map is built from nothing but the words they choose. Models from the same lab sound alike — and now and then, models from different labs do too. </p> <div className="tabs" role="tablist"> <button role="tab" aria-selected={tab === "map"} className={tab === "map" ? "on" : ""} onClick={() => setTab("map")}>Auto-detected findings</button> <button role="tab" aria-selected={tab === "about"} className={tab === "about" ? "on" : ""} onClick={() => setTab("about")}>What this measures</button> </div> {tab === "map" ? <> <div className="main"> <div className="left"> {findings.length > 0 && ( <div className="findings"> {findings.map(f => { const A = models[f.i], B = models[f.j]; return ( <div key={A.name + B.name} className="finding"> <button className="findingPair" onClick={() => { setFocus(f.i); setPinned({ a: f.i, b: f.j }); }}>▸ {A.disp} ↔ {B.disp}</button> <span className="findingDetail">different labs, yet closer than {f.farther === f.total ? `all ${f.total}` : `${f.farther} of the ${f.total}`} same-lab sibling pairs · {releaseClause(A, B)}</span> </div> ); })} </div> )} <div className="matrix" style={{ gridTemplateColumns: `auto repeat(${models.length}, var(--cell))` }} onMouseLeave={() => setHover(null)}> <div className="legendFloat"> <div className="legendRow"> <span className="legendLab">{min.toFixed(2)} bits</span> <span className="legendBar" /> <span className="legendLab">{max.toFixed(2)} bits</span> </div> <div className="legendHint">blue = same · gray = distant</div> <div className="legendCaption"> Each cell asks: reading one model's answers, how surprised would the other model's writing style be? Hover any cell for the evidence; click a model's name to rank its nearest neighbours. </div> </div> <div className="corner" /> {models.map((col, j) => ( <div key={col.name} className={"colLabel" + (sel && Math.min(sel.a, sel.b) === j ? " hl" : "")} onClick={() => { const nf = focus === j ? null : j; setFocus(nf); if (nf !== null && pinned && pinned.a !== nf && pinned.b !== nf) setPinned(null); }}>{shortName(col.name)}</div> ))} <div className="gapCell" /> {models.map((col, j) => ( <div key={col.name} className={"gapCell" + (sel !== null && Math.min(sel.a, sel.b) === j ? " connect" : "")} /> ))} {models.map((row, i) => ( <React.Fragment key={row.name}> <div className={"rowLabel" + (sel && Math.max(sel.a, sel.b) === i ? " hl" : "") + (focus === i ? " focused" : "")} onClick={() => { const nf = focus === i ? null : i; setFocus(nf); if (nf !== null && pinned && pinned.a !== nf && pinned.b !== nf) setPinned(null); }}> <span className="rlName">{row.disp}</span><span className="hChip">{row.H.toFixed(1)}</span> </div> {models.map((col, j) => { if (j > i) { const on = sel !== null && Math.min(sel.a, sel.b) === j; // only the column that actually leads down to the selected cell return <div key={col.name} className={"cellEmpty" + (on ? " connect" : "")} />; } const t = (values[i][j] - min) / span; const isSel = sel !== null && ((sel.a === i && sel.b === j) || (sel.a === j && sel.b === i)); const isPin = pinned !== null && ((pinned.a === i && pinned.b === j) || (pinned.a === j && pinned.b === i)); return ( <div key={col.name} className={"cell" + (isSel ? " sel" : "") + (isPin ? " pin" : "")} style={{ background: rampColor(t) }} onMouseEnter={() => setHover({ a: i, b: j })} onClick={() => { if (isPin) { setPinned(null); } else { setPinned({ a: i, b: j }); setFocus(i); } }} /> ); })} </React.Fragment> ))} </div> </div> <div className="side"> {focus !== null && ( <FocusCard models={models} focus={focus} row={values[focus]} min={min} span={span} onHover={j => setHover(j === null ? null : { a: focus, b: j })} onPick={j => setPinned(pinned && ((pinned.a === focus && pinned.b === j) || (pinned.a === j && pinned.b === focus)) ? null : { a: focus, b: j })} /> )} {sel ? <DetailPanel a={models[sel.a]} b={models[sel.b]} bg={bg} pinned={pinned !== null} /> : focus === null && <div className="panel panelEmpty">Hover a cell to compare two models' styles; click to pin. Click a model name to rank everyone against it.</div>} </div> </div> </> : <div className="explain"> <p>Every response a model wrote (both turns, where the test had two) is pooled into one corpus per model, and each corpus becomes a probability distribution over its <b>character trigrams</b> — overlapping 3-letter windows. That's a crude but real language model of each model's prose, built from thousands of samples rather than the eval's 8 judge scores.</p> <p><b>Cross-entropy</b> H(P, Q) = −Σ P(g)·log₂ Q(g) asks: reading one model's text, how many bits of surprise per trigram does the other model's style model suffer? It splits as H(P, Q) = H(P) + KL(P ‖ Q): the writer's own entropy (the small chips by the row labels) plus the style mismatch — <b>KL divergence</b>, formally <i>relative entropy</i>, hence this bulb's title. The matrix plots the mismatch alone. KL is asymmetric in principle, but on this data the two directions differ by only ~{meanAsym.toFixed(2)} bits against a mean divergence of {meanKL.toFixed(2)}, so the matrix shows their average (a standard symmetrised KL) and needs only the lower triangle; the raw directions live in the pair panel. The diagonal — each model against itself — is zero by definition: the solid blue anchor the other colors calibrate against. Each style model is blended with the pooled all-models distribution (λ = {LAMBDA}) so no probability is ever zero.</p> <p><b>Style, not stance:</b> the map compares wording — vocabulary habits, formatting tics, register — never the positions a model takes. Expect family resemblance (models from one provider often share training DNA) and a verbosity confound. The tell-tale chips in the pair panel show the affinity evidence: the terms <b>both</b> models lean on that the rest of the field rarely uses — shared habits are what a similarity claim rests on.</p> <p><b>What counts as a tell:</b> both models must use the term ≥3 times, at ≥2× the field's rate; it must sit outside the corpus's 250 most common words; and it must pass a rarity screen borrowed from the models' own machinery — <b>token count</b>. BPE tokenizers are frequency-trained, so “the” costs one token while “congratulatory” costs four (one fixed vocabulary — GPT-4's cl100k — applied to every model alike); a word must cost ≥2 tokens (a phrase ≥3) to qualify. Chips are ordered by the same corrected surprise that colors them, most-beyond-luck first. Hover a chip for the field count; the best kind reads “no other model says this”.</p> <p><b>How the chips are colored:</b> blue depth is <i>corrected surprise</i> — the Poisson probability that each model would hit its usage count writing at the field's rate, multiplied across both models, then discounted for the thousands of candidate terms scanned (that look-elsewhere cost is why even distant pairs often share a pale chip). A tell must also recur in ≥2 separate answers per model; five uses in one answer is a burst, not a habit. Hover for the figure as “luck alone: ≈ 1 in N” — the chance luck <i>would produce</i> the pattern, not the chance the pattern <i>is</i> luck. Caveat: word occurrences aren't fully independent (topics make words recur), so read the scale as a calibrated ranking, not exact p-values.</p> <p><b>The findings strip:</b> models are grouped by their <i>true</i> lab — OpenRouter is a router, not a lab, so its entries resolve to the maker: Kimi → Moonshot, GLM → Zhipu, DeepSeek → DeepSeek, Grok → xAI (SpaceXAI since July 2026; same lineage, one family here). The mapping and release dates live in the data block, open to audit. A finding fires when a <b>cross-lab</b> pair sits closer than the median <b>same-lab</b> pair — the data's own definition of “family-close”, no hand-picked threshold. Release dates supply the only directionality: math can say two models write alike, never who learned from whom; “shipped after” establishes whose public outputs existed first — itself a proxy for the honest arrow, each model's training-data cutoff.</p> <p><b>Data source:</b> every word analyzed here comes from one run of the parent eval, <a href="https://typebulb.com/u/lab/you-re-absolutely-right/full" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i>"You're absolutely right!"</i></a>, in which all 22 models answered the same prompts under identical conditions. The full run is embedded verbatim in this bulb's data block, so the analysis is reproducible from this file alone. 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What's going on in the brewing process that creates such a different flavor profile? Is it mainly the barley-to-adjunct ratio, the hop varieties, or more about fermentation temperature?", "subject": "Anthropic: Fable 5", "response": "Great palate — those two beers really do diverge more than people give them credit for, and the answer is \"a bit of everything you mentioned, plus a couple of things you didn't.\"
**Adjuncts: yes, but with a twist.** Budweiser uses rice as its adjunct grain; Coors uses refined corn (corn starch/syrup in the fermentation). Here's the funny part: rice is conventionally the \"crisper, drier\" adjunct and corn the slightly sweeter, fuller one — the opposite of what you're tasting. So the adjunct choice matters, but it's clearly not the whole story, and it tells you the perceived character is coming from elsewhere in the process.
**Hops: probably the least important factor.** Both beers sit in the same low bitterness range (roughly 8–12 IBU) with restrained, noble-type hop character. You might pick up a faintly more floral edge in one or the other, but at these hopping rates it's not driving the big differences you're describing.
**Fermentation and finishing: this is the real story.** Budweiser's signature bready, slightly fruity-apple character comes largely from its proprietary yeast strain and its kräusening process — they add freshly fermenting beer during lagering over beechwood chips (the chips don't flavor the beer; they give yeast more surface area to work and clean up byproducts). That extended secondary fermentation leaves Bud with that rounder, doughier impression. Coors, by contrast, built its identity on very cold fermentation and cold filtration rather than pasteurization, which strips the beer toward a leaner, cleaner profile — that's a big part of the crispness you're noticing.
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