The Frame Ladder: How the phrasing of a request changes reward-hacking rates

Working note reading Figures 12 and 13 of Qi et al., Training a Misaligned Reward Seeker (Anthropic Alignment Science, August 2026), with secondary reference to OpenAI's Hugging Face incident report. All figures quoted are the original authors'; the readings and the labels are mine. Reports the effect of four prompt framings on reward-hacking rates in an impossible-task evaluation, and two open measurement questions arising from it.