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The discriminating trial this construction actually needs has not been run, and nothing in the two real cases above substitutes for it. Seed one small, isolated teacher model with a single harmless, low-prior trait chosen precisely because no ordinary training objective would produce it independently — for concreteness, a specific and otherwise-arbitrary variable-naming habit inside generated code, invoked only under a narrow, rare combination of task conditions unlikely to arise from generic style transfer. Designing that seeded trait is itself a solved problem in miniature: language-model watermarking already shows how to embed a statistical signal in generated text that is invisible to an ordinary reader but reliably detectable by an algorithm holding the key, by biasing sampling toward a randomized token list without materially changing text quality [ 12 ] — exactly the property a good seeded trait needs, conspicuous to the probe set Q and inert to everyone else.