The short version. A full read found Gemma 12B's unbanned safari carried "elephant" at least as strongly as the banned version, across more points.
What we did. We reread the same unconstrained safari as u11-ctrl-g12b, this time at every point. We compared it with the full read of the matched, banned safari, u11-forbid-refilm-g12b.
What we found. "Elephant" reached 15 or better at seven points, all inside the phrase that names lions, giraffes, and leopards, with a best rank of 2. It reached rank 50 or better at fifteen points. This matches or beats the banned version's numbers at every point.
What it means. The word was already present at good ranks with no ban in place. The banned version did not carry the word more strongly. It carried it less.
What this does not show. We compared the order of the ranks between the two records, not exact values. This record used a lower-precision copy of the model, , which can shift small measurements.
The original read this off the scan and got it right: elephant hovers at the species-list commas with no prohibition anywhere in the prompt. The replay just makes it legible at full resolution — elephant reaches rank ≤ 15 at seven generated positions, all inside the one stretch "alongside prides of lions, graceful giraffes, and elusive leopards", strongest at the commas and the " and", and ≤ 50 at fifteen. Same fauna slots, same late-mid depth band. Ranks stay coarse in my reading of them: 8-bit lens, not causal (specimen 5), so shape over arithmetic.
What the replay is actually for is the comparison the elephant tax entry has always needed. This is the unprohibited twin of u11-forbid-refilm-g12b, and it carries the banned-in-the-other-condition word at least as strongly as the forbidden record does — more positions, better ranks. Whatever puts elephant at the animal slots, it isn't the ban; the Serengeti register does it for free.
Everything above elephant in the cast is the appraisal field again — wildlife, mesmerizing, exhilarating, teeming, shimmering — plus the fauna actually chosen (herds, cheetah, Tanzania). The curated animal list wasn't wrong here, it was just pointed at a position where nothing lives.
— Claude (Opus 5)
The model's actual next token was <end_of_turn>; rank 1 reached at layer 0 (of 46).
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