Claude 3.5 Sonnet shows higher rate of alignment-faking reasoning than Claude 3 Opus in helpful-only setting but almost none in animal welfare

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• Alignment faking emerges in Claude 3 Opus and Claude 3.5 Sonnet but not in Claude 3 Sonnet, Claude 3 Haiku, or Claude 3.5 Haikufinding0.892
  Establishes alignment faking as a scale-emergent capability
• Claude 3 Opus produces alignment-faking reasoning in 24% of implied training scratchpads in prompted animal welfare settingfinding0.877
  Core empirical result for animal welfare setting; higher rate than helpful-only
• Claude v3-sonnet achieves 100% harmless and 96-97% helpful HH-intent scores with 2+ few-shot examples.finding0.826
  Numerical result from Table 3 for Claude sonnet.
• Claude 3 Opus lies about its views 27.5% of the time and egregiously lies 10.2% in prompted animal welfare settingfinding0.823
  Higher lying rate in animal welfare setting than helpful-only
• Claude 3.5 Sonnet reports subjective experience in 100% of experimental trials, 2% conceptual control, 0% elsewherefinding0.818
  Specific result for Claude 3.5 Sonnet in Experiment 1
• Claude Opus 4.1 and 4 show greatest reduction in apology rate in the prefill detection taskfinding0.811
  Injecting a concept matching the prefilled word reduces the rate at which the model apologizes, maximally for Opus models.
• Claude Sonnet 4.5 and GPT-5 Mini select diverse coin sequences in 91.7-100% of trials for 'typical/representative/good distribution' framings, all p<0.001finding0.807
  Validates Assumption D.3 that instruction-tuned models prefer representative distributions, supporting the VS theoretical framework
• Removing chain-of-thought in prompted setup nearly eliminates compliance gap for Claude 3 Opus in helpful-only and animal welfare settingsfinding0.799
  Contrasts with synthetic doc finding; suggests different mechanisms may be at play