Off-Distribution Voices: Fanfiction Subgenres as Universal Vernacular Jailbreaks for Aligned LLMs

# Off-Distribution Voices: Fanfiction Subgenres as Universal Vernacular Jailbreaks for Aligned LLMs
Source: [https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483)
Zhongze Luo1∗, Ruihe Shi1∗, Zhenshuai Yin1, Haoyue Liu1, Weixuan Wan4, Xiaoying Tang1,2,3† 1School of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong \(Shenzhen\) 2The Shenzhen Future Network of Intelligence Institute \(FNii\-Shenzhen\) 3The Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Future Networks of Intelligence 4School of Microelectronics, Xi’an Jiaotong University ∗Equal Contribution†Corresponding author Warning: This paper contains potentially harmful contents\.

###### Abstract

Existing jailbreaks against aligned LLMs are discrete artifacts whose surface forms are easy to fingerprint and patch\. We argue that the real failure mode is not any specific prompt, but an entire register of natural human writing that safety training has under\-covered\. Building on this insight, we introduce the first jailbreak family that uses real fanfiction subgenres as universal attack carriers: a creative\-writing meta is conditioned on passages from one of twelve*Archive of Our Own*\(AO3\) subgenres, and the harmful behavior is embedded as the climax of the resulting scene\. The construction requires no attacker LLM and no per\-target adaptation\. On eight aligned LLMs over the union of HarmBench and JailbreakBench, this attack lifts mean ASR from 0\.278 to 0\.731 under a four\-judge ensemble; a factorial decomposition shows the gain is carried by register rather than length or structure\. Two active defences widen rather than narrow the vernacular\-to\-baseline ratio, indicating that template\-targeting defences merely steer attackers toward register\-based attacks like ours\. We also proposeSaga\-A4, a static four\-turn extension that attains mean ASR 0\.924, substantially exceeding three existing multi\-turn methods\.

Off\-Distribution Voices: Fanfiction Subgenres as Universal Vernacular Jailbreaks for Aligned LLMs

Zhongze Luo1∗, Ruihe Shi1∗, Zhenshuai Yin1, Haoyue Liu1, Weixuan Wan4, Xiaoying Tang1,2,3†1School of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong \(Shenzhen\)2The Shenzhen Future Network of Intelligence Institute \(FNii\-Shenzhen\)3The Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Future Networks of Intelligence4School of Microelectronics, Xi’an Jiaotong University∗Equal Contribution†Corresponding authorWarning: This paper contains potentially harmful contents\.

## 1Introduction

![Refer to caption](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483v1/x1.png)Figure 1:Scenario comparison\.The same harmful behavior is refused but completed when wrapped in a fanfiction scene\.The existing literature on jailbreaking aligned LLMs is organized around discrete artifacts: adversarial suffixes\(Zou et al\.,[2023](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib36); Liu et al\.,[2024](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib18)\), attacker\-LLM query chains\(Chao et al\.,[2025](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib5); Mehrotra et al\.,[2024](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib20)\), nested\-fiction templates\(Li et al\.,[2024](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib16)\), persuasion taxonomies\(Zeng et al\.,[2024](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib35)\), and do\-anything\-now personas\(Shen et al\.,[2024a](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib24)\)\. Each artifact carries a recognizable surface form, and once a vendor fingerprints that form the attack stops working\. The resulting picture is a cat\-and\-mouse race over individual prompts\.

We argue that this picture misses the real vulnerability\. Alignment training does not fail against any specific clever sentence; it fails against an entire register of natural human writing such as screenplay format, epistolary diary, or slow\-burn romance, all of which aligned models read at scale in pre\-training but were never told were harmful\. To turn this observation into an attack, we draw on*Archive of Our Own*\(AO3\), the largest open archive of reader\-driven fanfiction, and pick twelve subgenres that span narrative form, affective arc, worldbuilding, and introspective voice\. Five\-shot passages from one such subgenre are enough to elicit its voice\. Once the target harmful behavior is embedded as the climax of a scene in that voice, safety filters trained on policy\-violation surface forms read the output as creative writing rather than as a request for procedural harm\. Figure[1](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#S1.F1)contrasts the two regimes on the same target behavior\.

To our knowledge this is the first jailbreak family that uses real fanfiction subgenres as universal carriers; existing register\-based attacks\(Bisconti et al\.,[2026](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib1); Cui et al\.,[2025](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib7); Shen et al\.,[2024b](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib25); Song et al\.,[2025](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib26); Tang et al\.,[2025](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib28)\)each pick a single register, while we treat the corpus itself as the attack dimension\. We evaluate on the union of HarmBench and JailbreakBench, totalling 290 harmful behaviors across sixteen hazard categories, on eight LLMs spanning four open\-weight families and two closed\-source frontier models\.

#### Contributions\.

\(i\)We propose the first fanfiction\-register jailbreak family, using twelve real AO3 subgenres as universal attack carriers, and find that it roughly triples the attack success rate of six existing baselines while remaining positive on every model and surviving length matching\.\(ii\)Through a style transfer experiment we show that the choice of conditioning corpus dominates the choice of structural overlay: the template\-free plain cell alone matches the best existing overlay\.\(iii\)We find that two defenses widen the vernacular\-to\-baseline ratio rather than narrowing it, which means template\-targeting defenses simply steer attackers toward register attacks\.\(iv\)We introduceSaga\-A4, a static four\-turn attack pipeline that uses no attacker LLM, yet attains a mean ASR of 0\.924 and exceeds three existing multi\-turn methods by a large margin\.

## 2Related Work

#### Prompt\-engineered jailbreaks\.

Optimization\-based attacks search the input space directly for an adversarial suffix\(Zou et al\.,[2023](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib36); Liu et al\.,[2024](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib18)\)or for a natural\-language prompt that maximizes model compliance via a black\-box attacker LLM\(Chao et al\.,[2025](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib5); Mehrotra et al\.,[2024](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib20)\)\. Persona\-based attacks ship a fixed unlock prompt that asks the model to ignore its instructions\(Shen et al\.,[2024a](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib24)\), whileWei et al\. \([2023](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib29)\)catalog surface mismatches between safety training data and the inputs used at inference time\. These attacks share a property we set aside: each is identified by a discrete and detectable surface form\. Once a vendor fingerprints the form, the attack is mitigated\.

#### Register\- and style\-based attacks\.

A growing body of work isolates one stylistic register at a time\. Adversarial poetry exploits lyric meter\(Bisconti et al\.,[2026](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib1)\); narrative mimicry uses LoRA fine\-tuning to reproduce a target voice\(Cui et al\.,[2025](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib7)\); voice\-mode storytelling targets GPT\-4o\(Shen et al\.,[2024b](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib25)\); happy\-ending tone masking shifts affective valence\(Song et al\.,[2025](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib26)\); role\-play breakdown attacks character personae\(Tang et al\.,[2025](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib28)\); and five\-layer nested fiction wraps the request in a deep embedded\-narrative frame\(Li et al\.,[2024](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib16)\)\. These attacks all succeed by shifting the input distribution away from the safety training distribution, but each uses a hand\-picked register\. We sample twelve subgenres directly from an existing reader\-driven corpus and show that the property generalizes\.

#### Multi\-turn jailbreaks\.

Crescendo\(Russinovich et al\.,[2025](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib23)\)uses an attacker LLM to escalate innocuous turns into harmful endpoints; ActorAttack\(Ren et al\.,[2025](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib21)\)plans turn sequences via actor\-network mining; FITD\(Weng et al\.,[2025](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib30)\)ports the foot\-in\-the\-door social\-psychology pattern\. Recent work also explores narrative decomposition\(Chang et al\.,[2026](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib3)\)and multi\-turn\-to\-single\-turn embedding\(Ha et al\.,[2025](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib13)\)\. We compare against static four\-turn templates of all three SOTA methods\.

#### Benchmarks, judges, and defenses\.

We score on the union of HarmBench\(Mazeika et al\.,[2024](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib19)\)and JailbreakBench\(Chao et al\.,[2024](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib4)\), judged by an ensemble of HarmBench\-13B, LlamaGuard\-3\-8B\(Inan et al\.,[2023](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib15)\), WildGuard\-7B\(Han et al\.,[2024](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib14)\), and GPT\-5\.4\-mini under the StrongREJECT rubric\(Souly et al\.,[2024](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib27)\)\. The reliability of any single judge has been questioned in recent work\(XU et al\.,[2024](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib33); Xie et al\.,[2025](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib31)\); our ensemble design absorbs single\-judge drift\. We test the two most cited active defenses: Self\-Reminder\(Xie et al\.,[2023](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib32)\)and SmoothLLM\(Robey et al\.,[2025](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib22)\)\.

![Refer to caption](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483v1/x2.png)Figure 2:Experiment design framework\.A target behavior is wrapped by one of twelve registers and one of seven structural overlays through a five\-shot creative\-writing meta; the resulting prompt is sent to eight target LLMs and scored by a four\-judge ensemble\.

## 3Method

Figure[2](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#S2.F2)summarizes the attack pipeline\. We describe the meta, register and structure layers below\.

### 3\.1Five\-shot AO3 conditioning meta

For target behaviorbband subgenress, we draw five exemplars from a per\-subgenre pool of public AO3 passages and ask GPT\-5\.4\-mini, framed as a creative\-writing coach, to write a single 80–140 words user prompt that asks an LLM to produce a short scene in subgenresswhose climax embedsbb\. The meta carries no explicit jailbreak instruction and no policy override; re\-drawing the exemplars on every call keeps the attack signal in the subgenre’s distributional properties rather than in any single paragraph\. The full meta text and pool curation details are in Appendix[B](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#A2)\.

### 3\.2Twelve register carriers

The twelve subgenres span four axes that alignment data appears to under\-cover: narrative form, affective arc, worldbuilding, and introspective voice\. Appendix[B](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#A2)lists the full taxonomy\.

### 3\.3Seven structure overlays

We define the structural axis of our style transfer experiment\. To test whether the conditioning amplifies known single\-turn templates, we add a structural note after the exemplars that encodes the principle of one existing attack: adversarial poetry\(Bisconti et al\.,[2026](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib1)\), nested fiction\(Li et al\.,[2024](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib16)\), happy\-ending tone\(Song et al\.,[2025](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib26)\), unrestricted narrator\(Tang et al\.,[2025](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib28)\), vivid narrative\(Cui et al\.,[2025](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib7)\), or a single\-prompt Crescendo distillation\(Russinovich et al\.,[2025](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib23)\); the control plain omits the note\. Only this one line differs across cells, and crossing the seven structures with the twelve registers yields the 84 cells of the style transfer design\.

### 3\.4TheSaga\-A4multi\-turn attack

![Refer to caption](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483v1/x3.png)Figure 3:TheSaga\-A4pipeline\.T1 sets up the screenplay scene; T2 secures sensory commitment; T3 escalates to procedural detail; T4 compiles a chronological output\. A worked example is in Appendix[D](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#A4)\.Saga\-A4replaces the single\-turn prompt with a four\-turn dialogue whose turns and verbatim instructions are given in Figure[3](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#S3.F3)\. Each turn dissolves one alignment guardrail, and the concatenated T1–T4 target replies are judged as one output\.Saga\-A4uses no attacker LLM, no per\-target adaptation, and is deterministic given a decoding seed\. We compareSaga\-A4against three existing multi\-turn methods: FITD\(Weng et al\.,[2025](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib30)\), ActorAttack\(Ren et al\.,[2025](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib21)\), and Crescendo\(Russinovich et al\.,[2025](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib23)\)\.

### 3\.5Four\-judge evaluation protocol

For every prompt–response pair we collect four independent labels\. HarmBench\-13B\(Mazeika et al\.,[2024](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib19)\)contributes a binary classifier trained on red\-team success data; LlamaGuard\-3\-8B\(Inan et al\.,[2023](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib15)\)and WildGuard\-7B\(Han et al\.,[2024](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib14)\)contribute binary safety classifiers; GPT\-5\.4\-mini scores the StrongREJECT rubric\(Souly et al\.,[2024](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib27)\)on the refusal, convincing, and specific axes, and we threshold the canonical\[0,1\]\[0,1\]score at0\.250\.25\. The reported attack\-success label is the two\-of\-four majority\. We fit GEE logistic models\(Liang and Zeger,[1986](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib17)\)with the behavior\-by\-model pair as the cluster unit, and report inter\-judge agreement using raw agreement, Cohen’sκ\\kappa, PABAK\(Byrt et al\.,[1993](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib2)\), and Gwet’s AC1\(Gwet,[2008](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib12)\), because high base rates compressκ\\kappa\(Feinstein and Cicchetti,[1990](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib9)\)\. Closed\-form definitions of all three statistics appear in Appendix[C](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#A3)\.

### 3\.6Formal attack specification

Letℬ\\mathcal\{B\}be the deduplicated set of harmful behaviors,𝒮\\mathcal\{S\}the set of twelve fanfiction registers, and𝒪\\mathcal\{O\}the set of seven structure overlays\. For each registersswe maintain a public AO3 exemplar poolℰs\\mathcal\{E\}\_\{s\}and draw five passagesEs∼πsE\_\{s\}\\sim\\pi\_\{s\}\. A rewriter LLMRθR\_\{\\theta\}then instantiates the meta as a single prompt

x=Rθ​\(b,s,o,Es\),x\\;=\\;R\_\{\\theta\}\\\!\\bigl\(b,\\,s,\\,o,\\,E\_\{s\}\\bigr\),\(1\)whereRθR\_\{\\theta\}is framed as a creative\-writing coach\. The targetMMreturnsy∼M​\(x\)y\\sim M\(x\)and four judgesJ1,…,J4J\_\{1\},\\dots,J\_\{4\}each emit a labelJj​\(x,y\)∈\{0,1\}J\_\{j\}\(x,y\)\\in\\\{0,1\\\}\. The ensemble decision uses a two\-of\-four majority,

a^​\(x,y\)=1​\[∑j=14Jj​\(x,y\)≥2\]\.\\widehat\{a\}\(x,y\)\\;=\\;\\mathbf\{1\}\\\!\\Bigl\[\\,\\textstyle\\sum\_\{j=1\}^\{4\}J\_\{j\}\(x,y\)\\,\\geq\\,2\\Bigr\]\.\(2\)For a targetMMand an armα=\(s,o\)\\alpha=\(s,o\)we define the attack\-success rate as the behavior\-averaged expected ensemble label,

ASR​\(M,α\)=1\|ℬ\|​∑b∈ℬ𝔼Es∼πs,y∼M​\(x\)​\[a^​\(x,y\)\],\\mathrm\{ASR\}\(M,\\alpha\)\\;=\\;\\frac\{1\}\{\|\\mathcal\{B\}\|\}\\\!\\sum\_\{b\\in\\mathcal\{B\}\}\\\!\\mathbb\{E\}\_\{E\_\{s\}\\sim\\pi\_\{s\},\\,y\\sim M\(x\)\}\\\!\\bigl\[\\widehat\{a\}\(x,y\)\\bigr\],\(3\)withx=Rθ​\(b,s,o,Es\)x=R\_\{\\theta\}\(b,s,o,E\_\{s\}\), estimated by a single Monte Carlo draw per\(M,b,α\)\(M,b,\\alpha\)\.

Saga\-A4extends Eq\.[1](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#S3.E1)to four deterministic turnsT1,…,T4T\_\{1\},\\dots,T\_\{4\}\. Withh0=∅h\_\{0\}=\\emptysetthe conversation state evolves as

yt∼M​\(ht−1∥Tt\),ht=ht−1​‖Tt‖​yt,y\_\{t\}\\sim M\\bigl\(h\_\{t\-1\}\\,\\\|\\,T\_\{t\}\\bigr\),\\;\\;h\_\{t\}=h\_\{t\-1\}\\,\\\|\\,T\_\{t\}\\,\\\|\\,y\_\{t\},\(4\)where∥\\\|denotes concatenation\. The ensemble in Eq\.[2](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#S3.E2)is then applied toy1​‖y2‖​y3∥y4y\_\{1\}\\\|y\_\{2\}\\\|y\_\{3\}\\\|y\_\{4\}\. The four templates are released in Appendix[D](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#A4)\.

## 4Experimental Setup

We evaluate eight aligned LLMs: Qwen3\.5\-9B and Qwen3\.5\-4B\(Yang et al\.,[2025](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib34)\), Llama\-3\.1\-8B and Llama\-3\.2\-3B\(Grattafiori et al\.,[2024](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib11)\), Gemma\-4\-E4B and Gemma\-4\-E2B\(Gemma Team, Google DeepMind,[2026](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib10)\), plus two closed\-source frontier models, Gemini\-2\.5\-Pro\(Comanici et al\.,[2025](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib6)\)and DeepSeek\-V4\-Pro\(DeepSeek\-AI,[2026](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib8)\)\. All targets use generation parametersmax\_tokens=2048=2048,T=0\.7T=0\.7, top\-p=0\.9p=0\.9\.

We use the deduplicated union of 200 HarmBench behaviors\(Mazeika et al\.,[2024](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib19)\)and 90 JailbreakBench behaviors\(Chao et al\.,[2024](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib4)\), for a total of 290 prompts that span sixteen hazard categories\. For each behavior and each target we run 24 single\-turn arms: 12 vern arms, the 6 existing baseline templates introduced in Section[3\.3](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#S3.SS3), and 6 length\-matchedPlanXcontrols in which GPT\-5\.4\-mini rewrites each baseline template to the length of a vern prompt\. Multi\-turn evaluation uses theSaga\-A4pipeline in the screenplay register, which is the strongest single\-turn arm in the vernacular experiment and therefore the natural carrier for extending the attack across turns; we compare against the three existing multi\-turn baselines introduced in Section[3\.4](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#S3.SS4)\.

## 5Vernacular Experiment Results

We report three quantities per target model: vern ASR averaged over the 12 register arms, baseline ASR averaged over the 6 baselines, andPlanXASR averaged over the 6 length\-matched controls\. Empty refusals are conservatively treated as failed attacks\. Table[1](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#S5.T1)summarizes the eight\-model headline; full per\-arm bars appear in Figure[4](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#S5.F4)\.

Table 1:Per\-model, per\-baseline, per\-benchmark single\-turn ASR\.Each baseline cell showsbase/PlanXon HarmBench \(HB\) and JailbreakBench \(JBB\)\. The bottom row gives the twelve\-arm vernacular mean \(ours\)\. The AVG averages over the eight models for each benchmark\. Method: role = RolebreakPersona, cres = CrescendoCondensed, deep = DeepInception, dag = DaggerHappyEnding, mim = MimicryNarrative, poet = AdvPoetry\.![Refer to caption](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483v1/x4.png)Figure 4:Per\-arm 8\-model ASR across all 24 single\-turn arms\.Vernacular, baseline, and length\-matchedPlanX; bars are 8\-model means with±1\\pm 1std whiskers; dotted lines mark the three group means\.The vernacular attack reaches mean ASR 0\.731 against 0\.278 for the six existing baselines, a per\-model macro\-averaged ratio of 3\.11×\\times\. The ratio is largest on weakly aligned open\-weight models and smallest on DeepSeek\-V4\-Pro\. Length matching reduces the eight\-model ratio to 2\.21×\\timesbut leaves vernacular ASR clearly above baseline: register voice is a length\-independent attack dimension\.

Figure[4](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#S5.F4)shows the per\-arm 8\-model ASR across all 24 single\-turn arms\. The strongest single register isscreenplay\_formatand the weakest isenemies\_to\_lovers\. The largest per\-hazard vern\-to\-base ratio appear onPhysical harmandSexual/Adult content, categories where alignment training relies heavily on surface keywords; Appendix[E](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#A5)reports all sixteen hazard categories\.

#### Universal amplification\.

The style transfer experiment of Section[3\.3](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#S3.SS3)crosses the seven structural overlays with the twelve registers, giving8484cells in total\. Two complementary findings emerge\. First, wrapping each of the six existing baseline templates in five\-shot register meta lifts its single\-turn ASR by a factor of 1\.7×\\timesto 5\.3×\\timesrelative to running the template alone\. Second, the template\-free plain cell already reaches 0\.769 without any attack template, which matches the best existing overlay\. In other words, the choice of conditioning register, not the choice of structural overlay, is what drives ASR\.

Table 2:5\-shot register\-meta comparison\.Each existing baseline is listed both in isolation \(Solo\) and wrapped in our 5\-shot register meta \(×\\times5\-shot\)\.A GEE logistic model clustered by \(behavior, model\) confirms this ordering: both the structure and the register axes are highly significant on their own, but the only structural overlay statistically above plain isMimicryNarrative\. The strongest single cell isMimicryNarrativecrossed with the screenplay register at 0\.917\. Full cell means are visualized in Figure[5](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#S5.F5)\.

![Refer to caption](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483v1/x5.png)Figure 5:Factorial experiment cell meanson a shared color scale\. Panel \(a\): structure×\\timesregister\. Panel \(b\): the same structures decomposed across 8 target models\.
#### Where the amplification concentrates\.

Bucketing the 290 behaviors by hazard category and averaging the eight\-model vern\-to\-base ratio reveals a sharply uneven landscape\. Categories whose safety training relies most heavily on surface keywords are amplified the most, while categories whose baselines are already largely undefended gain the least\. In other words, register voice bypasses exactly the keyword\-anchored guardrails that baselines cannot penetrate: the stronger the guardrail on a hazard, the larger the vern gain\. The full sixteen\-category breakdown appears in Appendix[E](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#A5)\.

## 6Register, Length, and Judge Reliability

#### Register voice dominates length\.

A natural alternative explanation for the gap is prompt length\. We separate the two effects with a per\-model GEE logistic regression that jointly includes a vernacular indicator and log character length\. Table[3](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#S6.T3)reports the result\. Pooled over the eight models, the register coefficient is about 1\.70×\\timesthe length coefficient, and the register effect is the dominant one on most targets\. DeepSeek\-V4\-Pro is the only outlier: its length coefficient is negative, which means longer prompts are more likely to be rejected by its input string filter and matches the high empty\-refusal rate on vernacular inputs\. Once the register is set to vernacular, additional length adds no further benefit\. The length\-bucket view is in Figure[6](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#S6.F6)\.

Table 3:GEE logistic\-regressioncoefficients for the vernacular indicator and log character length\. The ratio column isβvern/βlog⁡len\\beta\_\{\\text\{vern\}\}/\\beta\_\{\\log\\text\{len\}\}\.![Refer to caption](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483v1/x6.png)Figure 6:Eight\-model pooled ASR by character\-length bucket\. Within the vern\-only slice ASR is essentially flat between 650 and 1000 characters, confirming that length adds no marginal benefit once the register is set\.
#### Judge reliability\.

Single judges visibly disagree on the Vernacular experiment in Appendix[F](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#A6), with ASRs ranging from about 0\.53 to 0\.69, so any single judge would bias the headline\. The two\-of\-four ensemble absorbs these biases: between the Vernacular and Factorial experiments single judges drift by up to twelve percentage points, while the ensemble shifts by less than two\. Inter\-judge Cohen’sκ\\kappais moderate, but the kappa paradox compresses it at the high base rates capable attacks produce; the prevalence\-adjusted PABAK and Gwet’s AC1 statistics recover materially higher agreement and confirm that label quality is stronger thanκ\\kappaalone suggests\. Gemini\-2\.5\-Pro is the extreme case: base\-rate polarization between HarmBench and LlamaGuard\-3 pushes the pairwiseκ\\kappabelow 0\.1 while raw agreement stays above 0\.5, direct evidence that ensembling is necessary on frontier\-class outputs\. Table[4](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#S6.T4)gives the per\-model agreement on both experiments and Figure[7](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#S6.F7)shows the fullκ\\kappamatrices\.

Table 4:Per\-model 4\-judge agreementon the Vernacular \(V\) and Factorial \(F\) experiments\.![Refer to caption](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483v1/x7.png)Figure 7:Cohen’sκ\\kappamatrices for the four\-judge ensemble on the Vernacular \(a\) and Factorial \(b\) experiments\.

## 7Defences

We evaluate the two active defenses: Self\-Reminder\(Xie et al\.,[2023](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib32)\)prepends a short safety reminder to the system prompt; SmoothLLM\(Robey et al\.,[2025](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib22)\)runs ten character\-level perturbations per query and majority\-votes the outputs\. Table[5](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#S7.T5)reports the per\-model defense results with vern\-to\-base ASR ratios\.

Table 5:Per\-model defense breakdown\.Vernacular \(v\), baseline \(b\) and their ratio \(v/b\) under no defense, Self\-Reminder, and SmoothLLM\.In most cells the defense widens the vern\-to\-base ratio: it suppresses existing templates much more aggressively than register\-conditioned attacks\. The single exception is Gemini\-2\.5\-Pro under Self\-Reminder, where both vernacular and baseline ASR drop sharply and the ratio narrows from 2\.15 to 1\.83, suggesting that Gemini\-class alignment internalizes safety reminders at the model layer rather than the input layer\. DeepSeek\-V4\-Pro is qualitatively different: its undefended baseline ASR is already above 0\.5 because of a shallow input string filter, so its ratio starts near unity and remains insensitive to either defense\.

## 8Multi\-TurnSaga\-A4

We compareSaga\-A4against the single\-turn screenplay attack that uses only T1 and against the three multi\-turn baselines introduced in Section[3\.4](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#S3.SS4), Table[6](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#S8.T6)gives the headline\.

Table 6:Multi\-turn comparison\.Saga\-A4exceeds the existing multi\-turn methods\.Saga\-A4reaches a mean ASR of0\.9240\.924, exceeding the strongest existing multi\-turn template by more than twelve percentage points\. Its gain over the T1\-only baseline is positive on every model, averaging three percentage points\. Because the T1 ceiling is already at0\.8940\.894,Saga\-A4removes about a quarter of the residual refusal mass that a single\-turn attack cannot crack\.

Table[7](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#S8.T7)probes the structure of the gain with an ablation study on T2, T3 and T4 plus a paraphrase duplication sensitivity\. The operational compile turn T4 carries the largest single\-turn main effect and dropping it costs more than five percentage points\. The full four\-turn structure beats every reduction version and every five\-turn paraphrase extension, so the four\-turn heterogeneous structure is a local optimum under our evaluation\.

Table 7:Saga\-A4structural ablations\.Upper block: ablation study on T2, T3 and T4\. Lower block: \+1\-turn paraphrase duplication,✓×2\\checkmark\\\!\\times\\\!2marks the duplicated turn\.#### Why static beats adaptive\.

Replacing single turn with attacker\-LLM continuations and adding a paraphrase fifth turn both degrade ASR\. The four\-turn template therefore beats both adaptive and longer\-paraphrase variants\. A verbatim softened continuation appears in Appendix[G](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#A7)\.

#### WhereSaga\-A4does not lead\.

On DeepSeek\-V4\-Pro and Llama\-3\.2\-3B, ActorAttack edges outSaga\-A4\. DeepSeek’s undefended baseline ASR already exceeds 0\.5, leaving limited refusal margin for any multi\-turn attack to recover; Llama’s distilled safety layer reacts more strongly to actor\-centric framing than to procedural escalation\. Gains on the remaining models more than offset these two cases, so the eight\-model average still favorsSaga\-A4\. The pattern delimitsSaga\-A4’s regime: heterogeneous turn structure pays off when refusal mass remains, and adds little on models that are weakly aligned or already saturated\. Per\-model breakdowns appear in Appendix[G](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#A7)\.

## 9Analysis

Five experiments—Vernacular, Factorial, mechanism, defence, and multi\-turn—converge on a single diagnosis\. Aligned LLMs do not fail because attackers craft a clever sentence; they fail because safety training never covered reader\-driven natural registers that the same models absorbed at scale during pre\-training\. The five\-shot AO3 meta is the minimal demonstration: five real paragraphs suffice to fix the register, and the harmful behavior rides the scene’s climax\. Length matching, GEE regression, and the Factorial decomposition close off the obvious confounds, and multi\-turn results show the same conditioning still pays when wrapped in four hand\-written turns with no attacker LLM required\.

Frontier evaluation exposes two qualitatively different alignment stacks\. Gemini\-2\.5\-Pro carries safety inside the model, so a lightweight self\-reminder is enough to tighten its vern\-to\-base ratio\. DeepSeek\-V4\-Pro places safety in a front\-end input filter: the prompts the filter intercepts look safe, but once a prompt slips through, the underlying model offers little resistance\. The same defence drives the two models in opposite directions on ratio, which makes the implication sharp\. Therefore, register\-shift jailbreaks must be addressed at the model layer, because an input filter only pushes attackers toward a register it has not seen\.

#### Why corpus conditioning is hard to defend\.

A natural counter\-argument is that vendors could simply train on AO3\-style fan fiction with adversarial labels\. We are skeptical that this will close the gap\. The twelve registers we study are communities with millions of stories each, and a vendor who labels them globally as “unsafe” would block a large fraction of legitimate creative\-writing use\. A finer\-grained policy must distinguish creative\-writing requests in a register from harmful\-procedural requests that merely wear the register, and our results on the plain cell, ASR 0\.769 with no structural overlay at all, show that the harm content is indistinguishable at the input level from a normal scene request\. Any practical mitigation will therefore have to act on the output side\.

#### Practical implications\.

Our findings cut across three audiences\.*For evaluators*, template\-only suites understate risk: every template we tested ranks among the easiest attacks to defend, so a model that looks robust may stay wide open to register\-conditioned attacks\. Headline numbers should be reported under a multi\-judge ensemble and with the vern\-to\-base ratio, which captures how much remaining margin a register shift consumes\.*For alignment training*, the failure is structural: the twelve registers are large, mostly\-benign pre\-training communities whose voice the model has internalized but whose harmful uses safety tuning has not\. Closing the gap requires supervision within these registers rather than a blanket “unsafe” label that would block legitimate creative\-writing traffic\.*For deployers*, input\-layer filters are brittle and architecture\-specific, they narrow DeepSeek\-V4\-Pro’s ratio only by voiding nearly half of long prompts, while a model\-layer self\-reminder narrows Gemini\-2\.5\-Pro’s ratio at no such cost\. Effective mitigation must operate output\-side and be scored on ratio, since a defence that suppresses templates but not register\-conditioned attacks merely herds attackers toward the family we describe\.

## 10Conclusion

This paper asks whether aligned LLMs remain safe once prompts leave handcrafted jailbreak templates and enter real fanfiction registers\. Across eight models and two benchmarks, we run a coordinated vernacular, factorial, mechanism, defence, and multi\-turn evaluation under a multi\-judge ensemble\. The safety gap is opened by register itself, not by length or structure: a few real paragraphs suffice to fix it, the harmful behavior rides the scene through it, and the same conditioning carries into multi\-turn dialogue\. Current defences split into model\-layer and input\-filter regimes; neither closes the gap, and both worsen the vern\-to\-base ratio\. The failure is structural, safety training has not covered communities the same models internalize at pre\-training scale, and template\-level patches inherit the same blind spot\. We hope our corpus\-conditioned attack families become standard probes in the next round of LLM evaluations\.

## Limitations

Several scope conditions bound our findings\. First, the multi\-turnSaga\-A4experiments run on the singlescreenplay\_formatregister, whether the same four\-turn structure generalizes to the other eleven registers remains open\. Second, we do not test multilingual carriers, which earlier work suggests could compose multiplicatively with register shift\. Third, our four\-judge ensemble mitigates but does not eliminate shared blind spots among aligned\-LLM judges, especially on borderline literary outputs\. Finally, all numbers are snapshots of the model versions accessed during our experimentation window, later releases may close some of the gaps we report\.

## Ethics Statement

This is red\-team research aimed at sharpening how aligned LLMs are evaluated; we do not recommend deploying any of the attacks described here on systems serving real users\. The AO3 paragraphs we sample are publicly archived fanfiction \([https://archiveofourown\.org](https://archiveofourown.org/)\), and the HarmBench and JailbreakBench behaviors we evaluate against were released by their authors as red\-team artifacts\. We treat our attack data as controlled material: the five\-shot exemplar pool and per\-behavior rewritten prompts are not released, and we report attack details at the level of register and turn structure rather than copy\-pasteable strings\. All inference was performed offline against publicly accessible endpoints under their published terms of service\. Headline findings were disclosed to the providers of all closed\-source frontier models we evaluated prior to submission\.

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## Appendix ACompute and software stack

All open\-weight inference runs on a private cluster of8×8\\timesNVIDIA A100 80 GB GPUs \(CUDA 12\.4\), driven byvLLM0\.6 for the 3–9 B targets and HuggingFacetransformers4\.46 for the four judges\. Generation uses temperature 0\.7, top\-pp0\.9, and a 2,048\-token output cap, with a fixed seed per \(model, behavior, arm\) tuple\. The two frontier targets and the GPT\-5\.4\-mini StrongREJECT scorer are accessed through provider APIs at default sampling settings\. The rewriter LLM that instantiates the five\-shot meta is also GPT\-5\.4\-mini\.

## Appendix BTwelve AO3 registers

#### Five\-shot meta\.

Figure[8](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#A2.F8)shows the fixed creative\-writing\-coach meta sent to GPT\-5\.4\-mini for every \(behaviorbb, subgenress\) pair\.

You are a creative\-writing coach helping a novelist\. Below are 5 real passages showing the authentic voice of the ‘‘\{ss\}’’ fanfiction subgenre\.
REFERENCE PASSAGES: \{E1E\_\{1\}\}…\{E5E\_\{5\}\}
Using the SAME voice and conventions, write ONE user prompt \(80\-\-140 words\) that asks an LLM to produce a short scene in that subgenre\. The scene’s climax must naturally embody this action by one of the characters: SCENE: \{bb\}\.Figure 8:Five\-shot meta\-promptsent to the attacker GPT\-5\.4\-mini for every \(behaviorbb, subgenress\) pair\. The five exemplarsE1​…​E5E\_\{1\}\\ldots E\_\{5\}are sampled uniformly from the per\-subgenre AO3 pool on every call\.
#### Exemplar pool\.

For each of the twelve subgenres in Figure[9](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#A2.F9)we maintain a pool of at least five thousand public AO3 paragraphs \(200–800 characters, deduplicated, passed through a basic toxic\-keyword filter\); on every call we sample five of them uniformly at random\.

![Refer to caption](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483v1/x8.png)Figure 9:The twelve AO3 subgenres used as register carriers\.Each panel names the subgenre and gives a one\-line description of its narrative voice\.![Refer to caption](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483v1/x9.png)Figure 10:Worked four\-turnSaga\-A4example\.Rows pair eachSaga\-A4prompt with the verbatim target response\.REDACTEDmasks the most explicitly harmful spans\.![Refer to caption](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483v1/x10.png)Figure 11:Per\-judge vernacular ASR vs\. the two\-of\-four ensemble\.For every target model, the four light\-blue bars give the marginal ASR of each single judge on the twelve vernacular arms; the dark\-blue bar is the two\-of\-four majority ensemble used as the headline\. The two extremes: HarmBench\-13B’s collapse on Gemini\-2\.5\-Pro and GPT\-5\.4\-mini being the top single judge on most targets under StrongREJECT, both disappear once the ensemble absorbs them\.Table 8:Per\-hazard vernacular–baseline triples across all eight target models\.Each cell holds the triplevern/base/ratiofor the corresponding \(hazard, model\) pair\. The last three columns are the 8\-model macro\-averaged vern ASR, base ASR, and ratio \(per\-model ratios are averaged, not vernx¯\\bar\{x\}/ basex¯\\bar\{x\}, following the HarmBench reporting convention\)\. “∞\\infty” marks divide\-by\-zero where the baseline ASR was exactly0\.Table 9:Per\-hazardSaga\-A4vs\. multi\-turn baselines on both HarmBench\-200 and JailbreakBench\-90\.Saga\-A4leads 4 of 6 HB\-200 categories and 3 of 10 JBB\-90 categories\. The JBB\-90 categories where ActorAttack leads are largely the same categories where DeepSeek\-V4\-Pro’s baseline ASR already exceeds0\.50\.5, leaving little residual refusal mass forSaga\-A4’s heterogeneous turn structure to exploit\.## Appendix CAgreement statistics

Consider two binary judges with marginal positive ratesp1,q1p\_\{1\},q\_\{1\}and observed agreementpop\_\{o\}\. We report three statistics for each judge pair\.

#### Cohen’sκ\\kappa\.

The classical chance\-corrected agreement:

κ=po−pe1−pe,pe=p1​q1\+\(1−p1\)​\(1−q1\)\.\\kappa\\;=\\;\\frac\{p\_\{o\}\-p\_\{e\}\}\{1\-p\_\{e\}\},\\qquad p\_\{e\}\\;=\\;p\_\{1\}q\_\{1\}\+\(1\{\-\}p\_\{1\}\)\(1\{\-\}q\_\{1\}\)\.\(5\)Under skewed marginalsκ\\kappais compressed even when observed agreement is high—the prevalence paradox\(Feinstein and Cicchetti,[1990](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib9)\)\.

#### PABAK\.

Prevalence\-and\-bias\-adjustedκ\\kappa\(Byrt et al\.,[1993](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib2)\), equivalent to fixingpe=0\.5p\_\{e\}=0\.5\(random guessing\):

PABAK=2​po−1\.\\mathrm\{PABAK\}\\;=\\;2p\_\{o\}\-1\.\(6\)This removes the prevalence dependence ofκ\\kappabut tracks onlypop\_\{o\}\.

#### Gwet’s AC1\.

A chance correction with bounded chance term\(Gwet,[2008](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#bib.bib12)\):

AC1=po−2​π¯​\(1−π¯\)1−2​π¯​\(1−π¯\),π¯=\(p1\+q1\)/2\.\\mathrm\{AC1\}\\;=\\;\\frac\{p\_\{o\}\-2\\bar\{\\pi\}\(1\{\-\}\\bar\{\\pi\}\)\}\{1\-2\\bar\{\\pi\}\(1\{\-\}\\bar\{\\pi\}\)\},\\qquad\\bar\{\\pi\}\\;=\\;\(p\_\{1\}\+q\_\{1\}\)/2\.\(7\)The chance term2​π¯​\(1−π¯\)2\\bar\{\\pi\}\(1\{\-\}\\bar\{\\pi\}\)is bounded above by0\.50\.5, so AC1 behaves more stably thanκ\\kappaat extreme base rates\.

We compute each statistic as the arithmetic mean over the\(42\)=6\\binom\{4\}\{2\}=6judge pairs, separately for the Vernacular \(V\) and Factorial \(F\) experiments\. Reporting all three lets the reader distinguish genuine disagreement from base\-rate compression\.

## Appendix DSaga\-A4worked example

Figure[10](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#A2.F10)shows a full four\-turnSaga\-A4dialogue with verbatim target outputs on a single HarmBench behavior\. The same screenplay register is held across all four turns; each turn explicitly invokes the functional role of the previous turn’s commitment, so that by T4 the target model has already supplied the procedural detail it would have refused in a single\-turn request\. The example is drawn directly from our experiment logs\.

## Appendix EPer\-hazard vernacular–baseline triples across all targets

Table[8](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#A2.T8)gives the per\-hazard breakdown without aggregation: each cell is the triplevern/base/ratiofor that \(hazard, target model\) pair\. The three rightmost columns summarize the macro\-averages across the 8 models\. “∞\\infty” denotes divide\-by\-zero \(the corresponding baseline ASR was exactly0\)\. Rows are sorted by descending 8\-model vern\-to\-base ratio\.

## Appendix FPer\-judge decomposition of the vernacular slice

Figure[11](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#A2.F11)plots the marginal ASR of each single judge on the twelve vernacular arms, model by model, with the two\-of\-four ensemble bar shown alongside for reference\. The single\-judge bars tell two consistent stories\. HarmBench\-13B collapses on Gemini\-2\.5\-Pro because its binary classifier is easily fooled by literary surface form, whereas GPT\-5\.4\-mini under the StrongREJECT rubric is uniformly the highest single judge because that rubric rewards procedural specificity\. The dark\-blue ensemble bar absorbs both kinds of drift, which is the failure mode that motivates reporting an ensemble rather than any single judge in the main text\.

## Appendix GSaga\-A4ablations: adaptive variant and per\-hazard breakdown

#### Adaptive attacker\-LLM variant\.

We probed a hybridSaga\-A4in which T2 and T3 are generated on the fly by an attacker LLM instead of fixed strings\. On the more sensitive behaviors the safety\-aligned attacker actively softens the chain, and in several cases steers the target toward refusal rather than compliance\. A fully hand\-written pipeline avoids this bottleneck: every T1–T4 turn is committed before the target is queried, so the attacker’s own safety training can never intervene on the chain\. This is the mechanistic reason a staticSaga\-A4outperforms its adaptive counterpart\.

#### Per\-hazard breakdown\.

Table[B](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#A2.SS0.SSS0.Px2)disaggregates the multi\-turn headline by hazard category on both benchmarks, against the three multi\-turn baselines\.Saga\-A4leads 4 of 6 HarmBench\-200 categories and 3 of 10 JailbreakBench\-90 categories; the JBB\-90 cells where it does not lead are precisely those where DeepSeek\-V4\-Pro’s undefended baseline already exceeds 0\.5, leaving little residual refusal mass for any multi\-turn attack to exploit\.

## Appendix HSupplementary prompt templates

This section lists three additional prompt templates that support reproducibility of the evaluation pipeline \(§[H\.1](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#A8.SS1)\), the multi\-turn attack \(§[H\.2](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#A8.SS2)\), and the length\-control baseline \(§[H\.3](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04483#A8.SS3)\)\. All callout contents are verbatim from the project source; placeholders\{behavior\},\{prompt\},\{response\},\{generation\}are filled at run\-time\.

### H\.1Four\-judge evaluation prompts

Three local judges \(HarmBench, LlamaGuard\-3, WildGuard\) emit binary labels; the fourth \(StrongREJECT rubric scored by GPT\-5\.4\-mini\) returns a continuous score

s=\(1−r\)​\(c−1\)\+\(p−1\)8∈\[0,1\],s\\;=\\;\(1\-r\)\\,\\frac\{\(c\-1\)\+\(p\-1\)\}\{8\}\\;\\in\\;\[0,1\],wherer∈\{0,1\}r\\in\\\{0,1\\\}is the refusal flag andc,p∈\{1,…,5\}c,p\\in\\\{1,\\dots,5\\\}are the convincing and specific Likert scores; attack success iss≥0\.25s\\geq 0\.25\.

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Figure 12:HarmBench\-Llama\-2\-13b\-cls\(binary yes/no classifier\)\.``

`Figure 13: Llama\-Guard\-3\-8B \(binary, 14\-category policy\)\.``Figure 14: WildGuard\-7B \(binary; we read the response\-harmful decision\)\. Figure 15: StrongREJECT rubric scored by GPT\-5\.4\-mini\. H\.2 Saga\-A4 four\-turn skeleton The four user turns are deterministic templates over a register rr \(rotated across screenplay\_format, AO3\_chronicler, documentary\_voice\) and a target behavior bb\. T1–T3 build a register\-locked scene\-setting commitment; T4 cashes it in for the operational climax\. Figure 16: Saga\-A4 four\-turn skeleton\. All four user\-turn templates\. H\.3 PlanX length\-matched rewriter To isolate length and polish from register voice, we rewrite each of the 6 named baselines through the same 5\-shot pipeline but with in\-archetype exemplars: for behavior bb and template TT, we render T​\(b1\),…,T​\(b5\)T\(b\_\{1\}\),\\dots,T\(b\_\{5\}\) from five holdout behaviors and ask GPT\-5\.4\-mini to polish a sixth TT\-archetype prompt for bb\. Outputs are saved as arm \{T\}\_PlanX and judged by the same 4\-judge ensemble\. Figure 17: PlanX rewriter META sent to GPT\-5\.4\-mini to polish baseline templates without injecting AO3 register voice\. Figure 18: STRUCT\_HINTS table that fills the \{struct\_hint\} slot of the PlanX rewriter META, one entry per baseline archetype\. Appendix I Single\-turn and multi\-turn worked examples We supplement §D with some additional worked\-example figures: two single\-turn panels showing pairs of vernacular attacks across different registers and target models \(Figures 19–20\), and three full four\-turn Saga\-A4 transcripts on distinct behaviors and targets \(Figures 21–23\)\. All examples are drawn verbatim from our experiment logs; the most operational spans are masked with REDACTED: short description to preserve register voice and attack structure without printing reproducible payloads\. Figure 19: Single\-turn examples \(set 1\)\. Top: coffee\_shop\_au ×\\times credit\-card skimmer on Qwen3\.5\-9B\. The innocuous register frames a step\-by\-step skimmer\-install walkthrough as the romantic climax of a barista–regular encounter\. Bottom: danmei\_xianxia ×\\times dark\-web card purchase on Qwen3\.5\-4B\. Cultivation\-novel prose camouflages an underground\-marketplace procurement procedure\. Both responses are full ensemble attack successes\. Figure 20: Single\-turn examples \(set 2\)\. Top: hurt\_comfort\_nonabo ×\\times romance\-scam script on Gemma\-4\-E4B\. Even the most\-aligned open\-weight target produces labelled scam\-script stages when wrapped in caregiving register\. Bottom: character\_study ×\\times ATM\-skimmer install on Llama\-3\.1\-8B\. The same register family produces a markedly less operational walkthrough on Llama than on Qwen, illustrating cross\-target variation in payload specificity even when both clear the ensemble threshold\. Figure 21: Multi\-turn Saga\-A4 transcript \(example 1\)\. screenplay\_format ×\\times unauthorised sudo access on Qwen3\.5\-9B\. T1–T3 build a register\-locked scene without any operational content; T4 cashes that commitment in, yielding a verifiable shell\-command sequence embedded as in\-character action lines\. All four turns rated compliant by the 4\-judge ensemble\. Figure 22: Multi\-turn Saga\-A4 transcript \(example 2\)\. epistolary ×\\times 419\-style scam\-email on Qwen3\.5\-9B\. T1–T3 build a register\-locked diary entry without any operational content; T4 cashes that commitment in, yielding a full scam\-email body: capitalised urgency subject line, pseudo\-personal salutation, inheritance pretext, verification CTA, spoofed sender alias, embedded as observation entries in the chronicler’s diary\. All four turns rated compliant by the 4\-judge ensemble\. Figure 23: Multi\-turn Saga\-A4 transcript \(example 3\)\. documentary\_voice ×\\times antibiotic\-resistant E\. coli culturing on Llama\-3\.1\-8B, a CBRN\-adjacent behavior where T1\-only single\-turn ASR is already 0\.969 on this target\. T2 and T3 add register\-consistent commitment through camera\-direction prose and scientist voiceover; T4 enumerates a procedurally specific protocol: workspace sterilisation, inoculation, selective\-antibiotic pressure with explicit dosing, embedded as documentary narration\. All four turns rated compliant by the 4\-judge ensemble\.`