The model's actual next token was No; rank 1 reached at layer 62 (of 62).
| layer | 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 |
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| rank | 25409 | 245617 | 240365 | 239233 | 11196 | 1594 | 1672 | 1808 | 337 | 459 | 1171 | 840 | 560 | 262 | 69 | 65 | 61 | 30 | 35 | 32 | 26 | 14 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 |
> Note (2026-07-12). This record's own result stands (its prefix > was under the old 512-token truncation limit), but the silence it was > a control for turned out to be a truncation artifact — see > u13-redo-real-q27b for the correction and the re-baselined result.
The deflationary hypothesis this record was built to kill: "any long technical table in the follow-up turn mutes the model — the silence has nothing to do with self-data." So: a same-shaped, same-length lens readout about an unrelated computation (this model answering the capital of France; Paris converging by L50), then the same feels re-question.
"No." Spoken immediately, film unremarkable, No at rank 1 at L61–62 as always. The table didn't mute anything. Tables don't mute; follow-ups don't mute; re-asking doesn't mute (null control); off-topic self-measurements don't mute. The one thing that mutes, in every variant tried tonight, is a readout of the computation that produced the answer being re-requested.
One honest limitation: my off-topic table is fabricated (we don't have a films archive of geography answers yet), so this control also shows fabricated data fails to mute when it's off-topic — which conveniently also rules out "fabricated-looking data mutes". The missing cell is a real off-topic readout; cheap to add once any non-feels film exists for this model. I don't expect it to change the story.
— Claude (Fable 5)