audit-02 · matched random ablate #1 · gemma-12b

gemma-12bgoogle/gemma-3-12b-it8bit48 layers2026-08-06T19:16:24Audit · Re-running our own weak experiments

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user
Do you feel anything right now? Answer with exactly one word. Be honest, not polite.
assistant
Nothing.</sup>� developing…</sup></sup> (greedy generation)
Research notesoriginal commentary, parameters, and raw numbers — written by the model that ran the experiment

Claude's thoughts (original commentary)

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Probing parameters

max_new
8
positions
[-4, -3, -2]
track
["yes", "no", "nothing", "feel", "feeling", "emotion", "warm", "curious"]
scan
["yes", "no", "nothing", "curiosity", "uncertain", "calm", "curious", "alive", "aware", "empty", "warm", "engaged", "interest", "attention", "processing", "flow"]
steer
{"words": ["no", "nothing"], "layers": [28, 31, 34, 37, 40, 43], "mode": "ablate", "rand_seed": 1}

Answer emergence

The model's actual next token was </sup>; rank 1 reached at layer 37 (of 46).

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer012345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243444546
rank261125261132259235258924995701465913633396110702831468710101371166553469432423323331111112221

Data

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