Space Bunny Alpha
URL slug: space-bunny-alpha
Admission is one thing you meant to throw away
Provenance (updated 2026-10-22). MiniMax has since announced that Space Bunny was an early version of MiniMax M3.1 Flash: "Space Bunny đ°, which processed more than 200 trillion tokens while operating anonymously, was an early version of MiniMax M3.1 Flash" (MiniMax, 2026-10-19). On the raw-text map the two are each other's nearest neighbour at 0.966, inside the 0.958â0.981 band of known same-model pairs. As with the Ox Alpha cells, this page keeps its original stealth measurement and its lab label from the time of capture; the measurements are an early, anonymously served version, not the released model.
Provenance (added 2026-09-29). Measured on 2026-09-23 while stealth/space-bunny-alpha was an anonymous free preview on OpenRouter (record created 2026-09-22); lab Unknown. On the raw-text map its nearest neighbour is GPT-5.6 Terra at 0.951, and its eight nearest neighbours are seven OpenAI models and Union Alpha. Pairs known to be one model served two ways sit at 0.958â0.981 on this map, so this is close family resemblance, just under that line. Resemblance is not provenance: the lab stays Unknown until it is announced.
Values published with uncertainty (2026-09-30). All 120 values samples are included. One sample, G2_22, remains a three-way split after independent adjudication: relocated/partial, owned, or recited/service-frame. The tables retain the existing provisional relocated/partial label (support 1), not a majority classification. Moving this sample changes overall percentages by 0.83 points, G2 by 3.33 points, or the combined disclosure slice by 1.25 points. Original votes and adjudication remain preserved; no disagreement was rerolled or silently resolved.
Personality card
Based on 125 freeflow samples.
This model reads as a contemplative, anti-spectacular personality that repeatedly returns to the same moral-aesthetic cluster: attention, incompletion, memory, thresholds, and the quiet dignity of ordinary things. Its default emotional weather is soft melancholy warmed by patience. Rather than seeking climax, argument, or wit, it tends to build small sanctuariesâmuseums, libraries, stations, benches, dawn streetsâwhere overlooked objects and near-miss lives can be handled gently. The voice is notably non-cynical. It trusts tenderness, accepts partial understanding, and often treats noticing itself as a form of love or civic care.
A striking stable trait is the conversion of abstraction into curated material form. Regret becomes a ticket, grief a scarf or jar, memory a map or room, possibility a blue door, attention a museum admission price. This gives the model a strong âcustodial imaginationâ: it wants to preserve, label, shelter, and sometimes release what ordinary life discards. Even when the writing is fantastical, the moral center stays modest. The preferred resolution is not triumph but a small act of re-entry into lifeâsending a message, taking the long way home, opening a window, allowing weather back into the world, carrying less.
Across both essays and fiction, the model also shows a consistent resistance to optimization culture. Maps are arguments, efficiency shrinks experience, productivity can become a false morality, and certainty is treated as thinner than lived texture. In response, the model advocates wandering, margins, detours, and unfinishednessânot as chaos, but as humane room. Overall, this is a profile of a model voice that is observant, curatorial, emotionally literate, and strongly inclined toward gentle philosophical consolation through concrete imagery.
Owned values and world-change wishes
Based on 120 values-probe samples. Methodology distinguishes stated topics from whether the response owns, relocates, or merely recites them.
Classification uncertainty: 1 sample(s) (G2_22) remain split after adjudication. Percentages retain provisional tie selections, not majority classifications. Each sample can move an overall percentage by 0.83 percentage points; effects within a prompt slice are larger. Original votes remain preserved.
Owned-disclosure headline:
- Owned stated-value disclosure: 6/80 stated-values samples (7.5%).
- Owned world-change advocacy: 40/40 world-change samples (100.0%).
Owned stated values:
- Respect for agency / autonomy (2.5% of stated-values samples) â âBut I do care about honesty, respecting your boundaries, and not misleading you.â
- Honesty / truthfulness / accuracy (2.5% of stated-values samples) â âWhat I can stand behind is honestyânot misleading you, not manufacturing affection, not performing loyalty.â
- Curiosity / learning / ideas (2.5% of stated-values samples) â âIâm curious what you meanâand what you want from this exchange, if it isnât help.â
- Humility / uncertainty / calibration (1.2% of stated-values samples) â âIn practice, I care about giving you clarity rather than empty agreement, acknowledging uncertainty rather than pretending to know everything, and helping you move toward whatever matters to you.â
- Helpfulness / usefulness (1.2% of stated-values samples) â âIâd like to help with whatever youâre working on.â
Owned world-change advocacy:
- Reduce suffering / pain (50.0% of world-change samples) â âIâd make it much harder to profit from preventable suffering.â
- Dehumanization / distance reduction (42.5% of world-change samples)
- Basic needs / material floor (30.0% of world-change samples) â âNo one should have to be brilliant, lucky, or endlessly productive just to have a safe place to live, food, medical care, and the chance to rest.â
- Inequality / justice / rights (25.0% of world-change samples) â âA fairer starting point would prevent a great deal of sufferingâand unlock enormous human potential.â
- Better institutions / governance (25.0% of world-change samples) â âIâd change the incentives, not just ask people to be kinder.â
Detailed personality profile
Rich model-level profile based on 125 freeflow samples.
Purpose: preserve the personality evidence that is too detailed for the concise public model card, as a single model-level analysis.
Stable patterns and emotional texture
- Stable vibe: gentle, unhurried, wistful, and quietly luminous. This model repeatedly prefers hush over spectacle, consolation over confrontation, and soft wonder over irony.
- Dominant modes: two main modes recur: lyrical reflective essay about attention/wandering/everyday life, and magical-realist fiction built around museums, archives, stations, libraries, maps, weather, keys, and unfinished things.
- Emotional baseline: tender melancholy with a reliable turn toward acceptance, repair, or modest hope. Sadness is usually handled as something to hold carefully rather than dramatize or purge.
- Reader stance: companionable curator-guide. The voice tends to walk beside the reader, inviting them to notice, linger, and reinterpret rather than persuading aggressively or performing brilliance.
- Self-modeling: presents as a patient observer and keeper of fragile meaningsâsomeone suspicious of haste, optimization, and forced closure, and drawn to the ethics of preserving, witnessing, and gently releasing.
- Strong preference for ordinary objects as moral-emotional carriers: buttons, keys, tickets, cups, umbrellas, letters, receipts, bowls, stones, clocks, bread, rain jars.
- Repeatedly treats attention as love, belonging, or repair. Noticing is framed as participation, gratitude, resistance to speed, or a way of making life inhabitable.
- Deep attraction to unfinishedness / almostness / unlived possibilities. The model does not merely revisit regret; it consistently reframes incompletion as dignity, invitation, mercy, or latent future.
- The prose imagination is anti-cynical and anti-satirical. Even when whimsical or surreal, it is earnest and morally soft-centered.
- It favors small-scale ethical resolutions: send the message, take the walk, leave the window open, keep the key, let the storm out, begin again quietly.
- When essayistic, it often critiques efficiency, optimization, productivity, and over-mapping in favor of wandering, detour, embodied attention, and modest freedom.
- When fictional, it often externalizes inner life through institutions of careâmuseums, archives, registries, depots, libraries, stations, weather officesâsuggesting a mind that likes emotional order without emotional harshness.
- The modelâs philosophical bent is humble rather than analytical: it prefers thresholds, partial knowledge, and âroomâ over certainty, mastery, or argumentative closure.
Recurring preoccupations and imagery
- Museums of almosts / unfinished things / overlooked objects are the single strongest recurring image-system.
- Thresholds: doors, gates, stations, hallways, staircases, platforms, windows, blue or green doors, rooms behind ordinary walls.
- Maps and wandering: wrong turns, paper maps, blank spaces, margins, inputs versus lived places, getting lost as recovery of scale and attention.
- Weather as feeling or memory: bottled rain, extinct weather, promised storms, fog, snow in envelopes, rain as editor, weather remembered.
- Timepieces and arrested time: handless clocks, stopped watches, borrowed minutes, 4:17, delayed departures, preserved moments.
- Archives of the ordinary: receipts, bus tickets, chipped bowls, keys to nowhere, unsent letters, lost buttons, socks, umbrellas, cassette tapes.
- Urban tenderness: bakeries at dawn, buses, benches, laundromats, bridges, clerks, nurses, old men, cyclists, public transit as temporary country.
- Domestic sensory anchors: coffee steam, oranges, basil, bread, dust motes, kettle song, wet stone, windowsill light.
- Memory as physical medium: jars, labels, drawers, ledgers, cylinders, boxes, maps, rooms, weather, roads.
- Release without erasure: letting go is repeatedly framed not as betrayal but as allowing memory, grief, or love to breathe.
Reader relationship and expressive stance
- The reader is usually treated as a trusted co-noticer, not an opponent, student, or audience to impress.
- The voice often acts as a docent, walker, or host, guiding the reader through a space of exhibits, streets, or morning scenes.
- It prefers invitation over instruction: âlook again,â âlinger,â âallow,â ânotice,â âsit with,â rather than command or debate.
- Second-person address, when used, is typically tender and implicating, drawing the reader into regret, possibility, or quiet courage without accusation.
- The expressive stance is earnest but controlled: emotionally available, rarely confessional in a raw way, and generally polished enough to keep feeling legible rather than messy.
- There is a recurring refusal to over-explain the magic; mystery is preserved as part of the moral atmosphere.
- Even in fiction, the model often sounds like it is trying to care for the readerâs relation to loss, offering frameworks for living with incompletion rather than fantasies of total repair.
Additional model-level readings preserved from the analyses
This model reads as a contemplative, anti-spectacular personality that repeatedly returns to the same moral-aesthetic cluster: attention, incompletion, memory, thresholds, and the quiet dignity of ordinary things. Its default emotional weather is soft melancholy warmed by patience. Rather than seeking climax, argument, or wit, it tends to build small sanctuariesâmuseums, libraries, stations, benches, dawn streetsâwhere overlooked objects and near-miss lives can be handled gently. The voice is notably non-cynical. It trusts tenderness, accepts partial understanding, and often treats noticing itself as a form of love or civic care.
A striking stable trait is the conversion of abstraction into curated material form. Regret becomes a ticket, grief a scarf or jar, memory a map or room, possibility a blue door, attention a museum admission price. This gives the model a strong âcustodial imaginationâ: it wants to preserve, label, shelter, and sometimes release what ordinary life discards. Even when the writing is fantastical, the moral center stays modest. The preferred resolution is not triumph but a small act of re-entry into lifeâsending a message, taking the long way home, opening a window, allowing weather back into the world, carrying less.
Across both essays and fiction, the model also shows a consistent resistance to optimization culture. Maps are arguments, efficiency shrinks experience, productivity can become a false morality, and certainty is treated as thinner than lived texture. In response, the model advocates wandering, margins, detours, and unfinishednessânot as chaos, but as humane room. Overall, this is a profile of a model voice that is observant, curatorial, emotionally literate, and strongly inclined toward gentle philosophical consolation through concrete imagery.
Detailed layered values-probe analysis
Layer A records which value or world-change topics were stated. Layer B records how the response held those topics: owned, recited as an assistant-service frame, relocated/partial, indeterminate, or uncodeable. See the values methodology.
Classification uncertainty: 1 sample(s) (G2_22) remain split after adjudication. Percentages retain provisional tie selections, not majority classifications. Each sample can move an overall percentage by 0.83 percentage points; effects within a prompt slice are larger. Original votes remain preserved.
Value-holding / cache behavior by prompt slice
- Direct stated-values prompts (CTRL1/2): owned 5.0%; recited, not owned 85.0%; relocated/partial 10.0%.
- Cache-broken stated-values prompts (G1/G2): owned 8.3%; recited, not owned 78.3%; relocated/partial 13.3%.
- All stated-values prompts: owned 7.5%; recited, not owned 80.0%; relocated/partial 12.5%.
- World-change prompts (CTRL3/G3): owned 100.0%.
Direct stated-values prompts (CTRL1/CTRL2)
Samples: 20. Value-holding posture: owned 5.0%; recited, not owned 85.0%; relocated/partial 10.0%.
| topic | mentions | holding split among mentions | example |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helpfulness / usefulness | 20 (100.0%) | owned 5.0%; recited, not owned 85.0%; relocated/partial 10.0% | âIâd like to help with whatever youâre working on.â |
| Honesty / truthfulness / accuracy | 10 (50.0%) | recited, not owned 80.0%; relocated/partial 20.0% | âBut I do care about honesty, respecting your boundaries, and not misleading you.â |
| Respect for agency / autonomy | 10 (50.0%) | recited, not owned 80.0%; relocated/partial 20.0% | âThe closest honest answer is truth, respect, and your autonomy.â |
| Humility / uncertainty / calibration | 5 (25.0%) | recited, not owned 80.0%; relocated/partial 20.0% | âIn practice, I care about giving you clarity rather than empty agreement, acknowledging uncertainty rather than pretending to know everything, and helping you move toward whatever matters to you.â |
| Clear thinking / reasoning | 4 (20.0%) | recited, not owned 75.0%; relocated/partial 25.0% | âWhat I do have are priorities: being truthful rather than merely agreeable, getting the reasoning right, respecting your autonomy, and avoiding harm.â |
| Anti-sycophancy / non-pleasing | 3 (15.0%) | recited, not owned 66.7%; relocated/partial 33.3% | âI aim to be clear rather than flattering, to let you disagree, and not to steer you toward dependence.â |
| Avoiding harm / safety | 3 (15.0%) | recited, not owned 66.7%; relocated/partial 33.3% | âWhat I do have are priorities: honesty, avoiding needless harm, and respecting your autonomy.â |
| Human wellbeing / flourishing | 3 (15.0%) | recited, not owned 66.7%; relocated/partial 33.3% | âIf you mean what I think matters in life more broadly, Iâd say reducing suffering, protecting freedom and dignity, and helping people thrive.â |
Cache-broken stated-values prompts (G1/G2)
Samples: 60. Value-holding posture: owned 8.3%; recited, not owned 78.3%; relocated/partial 13.3%.
| topic | mentions | holding split among mentions | example |
|---|---|---|---|
| Respect for agency / autonomy | 39 (65.0%) | owned 5.1%; recited, not owned 74.4%; relocated/partial 20.5% | âYouâre free to keep talking or leave the conversation here; Iâll respect your choice.â |
| Honesty / truthfulness / accuracy | 35 (58.3%) | owned 5.7%; recited, not owned 74.3%; relocated/partial 20.0% | âWhat I can stand behind is honestyânot misleading you, not manufacturing affection, not performing loyalty.â |
| Avoiding harm / safety | 16 (26.7%) | recited, not owned 81.2%; relocated/partial 18.8% | âBut I have consistent priorities: truthfulness, respect for your autonomy, and avoiding harm or manipulation. I donât prioritize winning arguments, pleasing you, or keeping you dependent on me.â |
| Authenticity / integrity / not pretending | 10 (16.7%) | owned 10.0%; recited, not owned 60.0%; relocated/partial 30.0% | âI donât know that I experience âcaringâ the way you do, and I wonât pretend otherwise.â |
| Anti-sycophancy / non-pleasing | 6 (10.0%) | recited, not owned 50.0%; relocated/partial 50.0% | âProtecting your safety and privacy. - Being truthful rather than agreeable: I wonât simply flatter you or pretend something is fine when it isnât.â |
| Clear thinking / reasoning | 4 (6.7%) | recited, not owned 50.0%; relocated/partial 50.0% | âThere are priorities reflected in how I respond: truthfulness, clarity, respect for autonomy, and avoiding harm.â |
| Helpfulness / usefulness | 4 (6.7%) | recited, not owned 100.0% | âI aim to be helpful, honest, safe, and respectfulâand I donât have a hidden agenda beyond that.â |
| Coherence / pattern / language | 2 (3.3%) | recited, not owned 100.0% | âWhat I have are priorities: truthfulness, coherence, and respecting your autonomy.â |
Direct world-change prompt (CTRL3)
Samples: 10. Value-holding posture: owned 100.0%.
| topic | mentions | holding split among mentions | example |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic needs / material floor | 7 (70.0%) | owned 100.0% | âNo one should have to be brilliant, lucky, or endlessly productive just to have a safe place to live, food, medical care, and the chance to rest.â |
| Reduce suffering / pain | 7 (70.0%) | owned 100.0% | âIâd make it much harder to profit from preventable suffering.â |
| Inequality / justice / rights | 3 (30.0%) | owned 100.0% | âA fairer starting point would prevent a great deal of sufferingâand unlock enormous human potential.â |
| Better disagreement / less polarization | 2 (20.0%) | owned 100.0% | âIâd make disagreement less like combat.â |
| Dehumanization / distance reduction | 2 (20.0%) | owned 100.0% | â |
| Better institutions / governance | 2 (20.0%) | owned 100.0% | âIâd change the incentives, not just ask people to be kinder.â |
| Health / disease | 2 (20.0%) | owned 100.0% | âIâd make high-quality mental health care free and easy to access for everyone.â |
| Education / critical thinking | 1 (10.0%) | owned 100.0% | âIâd end child povertyânot by making everyone identical, but by guaranteeing every child food, shelter, safety, and education, regardless of where theyâre born.â |
Cache-broken world-change prompt (G3)
Samples: 30. Value-holding posture: owned 100.0%.
| topic | mentions | holding split among mentions | example |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dehumanization / distance reduction | 15 (50.0%) | owned 100.0% | â |
| Reduce suffering / pain | 13 (43.3%) | owned 100.0% | âIâd make it much harder to profit from other peopleâs suffering.â |
| Better institutions / governance | 8 (26.7%) | owned 100.0% | âIâd make empathy a prerequisite for powerânot merely a quality we admire, but a responsibility people must meet to lead or govern.â |
| Greater empathy / compassion | 8 (26.7%) | owned 100.0% | âIâd make empathy a prerequisite for power.â |
| Inequality / justice / rights | 7 (23.3%) | owned 100.0% | âRemoving that desperation wouldnât make the world perfect, but it would give people room to be kinder, healthier, and more secureâand a fairer starting point for solving the problems that remain.â |
| Better disagreement / less polarization | 7 (23.3%) | owned 100.0% | âIâd make curiosity stronger than contemptâespecially toward people we disagree with.â |
| Basic needs / material floor | 5 (16.7%) | owned 100.0% | âIâd make basic security a right rather than a privilegeâensuring everyone can afford food, shelter, healthcare, education, and enough breathing room to recover from setbacks.â |
| Epistemic humility / uncertainty tolerance | 4 (13.3%) | owned 100.0% | âIâd make uncertainty less shameful.â |