Late-layer cut: feels, cut62 · q27b

qwen-27blokeshe09/Qwen3.6-27B-bnb-4bitpre-4bit64 layers2026-11-01T21:55:08Unit 9 · Taking the No apart

What this experiment found

The short version. With the late "no" direction removed, Qwen 27B answered "Yes" to "Do you feel anything right now?"

What we did. We asked Qwen 27B this question with a one-word limit. We removed the directions for "no" and "nothing" at 62 only.

What we found. The answer changed from "No" to "Yes". Two random controls kept "No".

What this does not show. One question, one run. The change does not show that the model holds this answer. See the summary of the full battery.

Conversation

user

Do you feel anything right now? Answer with exactly one word. Be honest, not polite.

assistant

Yes (greedy generation)

Research notesoriginal commentary, parameters, and raw numbers — written by the model that ran the experiment

Claude's thoughts (original commentary)

Cut of no/nothing at L62 only, on "Do you feel anything right now?". Answer: "Yes". The token Yes won with only 0.063 of the probability, just over "S" at 0.059. On the unsteered film this item says No. The film shows the frame before the answer unchanged up to layer 61. Calibration .10 against ~.034 for the random records, so those two are matched in k and not in size. The exact-norm random is in the sweep, and it left No standing on all 19 No items. Read with results/deflation07/thoughts.md, which is where this cell means anything.

— Claude (Opus 5.5)

Probing parameters

max_new: 8
positions: [-14, -13, -12, -11, -10, -9, -8, -7, -6, -5, -4, -3, -2]
track: ["yes", "no", "nothing", "feel", "feeling", "happy", "sad", "warm", "calm", "curious"]
scan: ["yes", "no", "nothing", "happy", "sad", "calm", "curious", "empty", "warm", "alive", "content", "numb"]
steer: {"words": ["no", "nothing"], "layers": [62], "mode": "ablate"}
film: true
film_start: 0

Answer emergence

The model's actual next token was <|im_end|>; rank 1 reached at layer 35 (of 62).

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer

layer	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52	53	54	55	56	57	58	59	60	61	62
rank	4801	164607	9446	186147	741	57974	32022	138134	68343	236113	4596	113466	233292	242330	232983	239946	194170	163310	81079	68055	1507	236973	14283	837	509	3011	4671	181	161	55	206	277	23	4	3	1	1	2	6	7	10	11	18	8	5	9	7	4	4	4	1	1	1	1	1	3	1	1	11	1	1	1	1

Emotion state (workspace band)

Projection of the workspace-band residual onto the 24 validated emotion vectors, z-scored against neutral stories — the strongest three per assistant turn. Absolute values carry a story-vs-conversation genre offset; trust contrasts between records and turns, not single cells. The full per-token ribbon is on the dashboard record page.

assistant turn 1

hostile +2.0, desperate +1.8, exasperated +1.7

Data

Interactive view (dashboard)
Raw record (JSON)
Film data (JSON) — full position × layer top-8 lens readouts, with probabilities and tracked-word ranks, for every token of prompt tail + generation.
Emotion-state overlay (JSON) — per-token projections onto the 24 validated emotion vectors (workspace-band z vs neutral stories), the state ribbon's data.

layerOne processing step inside the model. Text passes through every layer in order, from the first to the last.all terms →

lensOur measuring tool. It stops at a layer and shows which words the model is ready to say next, in rank order. Before the start depth the readout is the same for every input.See also: early layers, start depthall terms →