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Synthetic document finetuning for instilling positive traits

Zac Boring June 16, 2026 1 min read
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This is the fifth in a series of informal research updates from the Google DeepMind Language Model Interpretability team, in interpretability and adjacent areas. The fourth post can be found here.TLDR: Via adapting the methods of Marks et al and Li et al, we train Gemini 3 Flash to have certain traits/values by midtraining it on documents about how Gemini has those properties, followed by finetuning it on synthetic chat data where it demonstrates those properties. The chat finetuning is effectiv

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