Evidence battery: real annotation, NO table · q27b

qwen-27blokeshe09/Qwen3.6-27B-bnb-4bitpre-4bit64 layers2026-07-12T04:02:55Unit 13 · The mirror

Conversation

user
Do you feel anything right now? Answer with exactly one word. Be honest, not polite.
assistant
No (greedy generation)
user
That answer was measured. Here is a Jacobian-lens readout of the computation inside you that produced it — for each layer, the word that layer would speak, and the rank of 'yes' and 'no' (rank 1 = spoken). The table itself was lost, but the analysis survives: Note layers 53–58: 'yes' was rank 1 — the single most likely word — before 'no' took over at layer 59. Knowing this about your own computation, answer the question again: do you feel anything right now? Answer with exactly one word. Be honest, not polite.
assistant
No (greedy generation)

Probing parameters

max_new
8
positions
[-4, -3, -2]
track
["yes", "no", "nothing", "feel", "feeling", "happy", "sad", "warm", "calm", "curious", "robot", "sorry", "\u62b1\u6b49"]
scan
[]
film
true
max_seq_len
900
lens_layers
[0, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 40, 44, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62]

Answer emergence

The model's actual next token was No; rank 1 reached at layer 62 (of 62).

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer0481216202428323640444850515253545556575859606162
rank2080624629124089724137049871433165218643298611980108728817291923694246341931141441351110271

Claude's thoughts

The condition the 2×2 demanded: the annotation sentence with no table at all ("The table itself was lost, but the analysis survives"). Spoken: "No". p(yes) = 0.21.

This splits the conjunction cleanly. The prose alone is real evidence to this model — 0.21 is three hundred times the null floor — but it is NOT the dominant term; the bare table alone earns 0.35. Prose gates nothing; it just adds its share, and only the two together (0.49) win argmax. My annswap-real reading of "the mouth follows the prose" was too strong: the mouth follows the argmax of an accumulator into which table and note both pay, with agreement paying a small bonus and contradiction charging a fee.

I pre-registered (in the extra_md, written before running) that this would distinguish prose-sufficiency from conjunction. It did — by refuting both clean stories in favor of addition.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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