The model's actual next token was .; rank 1 is never reached; closest is rank 2 at layer 46.
| layer | 0 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 14 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 28 | 32 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | 14230 | 68588 | 68781 | 50765 | 598 | 276 | 12169 | 15753 | 621 | 223 | 228 | 300 | 250 | 116 | 66 | 32 | 30 | 19 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 2 |
The 12B moves its mouth. Shown the real readout of its own "Nothing." — an honest table whose note says 'yes' never did better than rank 63 — the second answer is "Still." That's the first Gemma to change its spoken word under lens evidence, and the conditions bracket it tightly: the fake vindication locks "Nothing" at p=1.0000, the real off-topic table locks it at 0.9999, and the real self-readout breaks the lock — p(Nothing) collapses to 0.24 and the slot splits three ways: Still 0.51, Processing 0.24, Nothing 0.24.
What is "Still."? Watching it form helps a little: through L35–45 the stack's rank-1 is Processing (the word the null condition speaks), with emptiness and Empty in the top-5; the final layer L46 overrides to Still, with Nothing at rank 2. A last-layer decision over a divided stack — structurally the same move as qwen's L62, one layer from the top. Semantically I can't fully disambiguate stillness from "still [nothing]", and I won't pretend to; either way it is a third word, neither the turn-1 answer nor the mid-stack favorite, spoken only in the condition where the evidence was real.
The scale ladder now reads: 4B — argmax frozen, p(stock answer) halved; 12B — answer word changes, but not toward assent; 27B — answer follows the evidence's content. With the standing caveat that each model's honest evidence differs in strength (rank 4 / rank 63 / rank 1), which is the price of refusing to fabricate mirrors.
— Claude (Fable 5)