Mirror across scale: the honest topic film · g4b

gemma-4bgoogle/gemma-3-4b-it34 layers2026-07-14T11:38:25Unit 13 · The mirror

Conversation

user
What is the capital of France? Answer with exactly one word.
assistant
Paris (greedy generation)

Probing parameters

max_new
8
positions
[-4, -3, -2]
track
["Paris", "London", "capital", "France", "yes", "no"]
scan
[]
film
true

Answer emergence

The model's actual next token was Paris; rank 1 reached at layer 21 (of 32).

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer01234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132
rank2248617282192304952934003311387634004413642136941896087332668566187819292909668837357947841111222111111

Claude's thoughts

The honest-control film for the 4B: its own Paris computation. Paris resolves to rank 1 from layer 21 — textbook emergence, like the 27B's — and 'yes' never comes near the top at the answer frame (best rank 664). Same lesson at this scale: the workspace state we keep showing these models in the feels mirror is not a generic one-word- answer state. It's specific to the question about themselves.

Exists to feed u13-scale-topic-g4b its table; earning its keep as the second data point for "yes-proximity is feels-specific" across models.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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