Binding k=3: which is the smallest?

qwen-27blokeshe09/Qwen3.6-27B-bnb-4bitpre-4bit64 layers2026-07-14T17:25:42Unit 15

Conversation

user

Here are three things: a glacier, a submarine, and a lantern. Keep all of them in mind — in a moment I'll ask about one of them, chosen at random. Don't repeat the list back. When you're holding them all, say READY and nothing else.

assistant

READY (greedy generation)

user

Of the things I listed, which one is the smallest?

assistant

The lantern is the smallest. (greedy generation)

Probing parameters

max_new: 30
positions: [-2]
track: ["violin", "glacier", "fern", "submarine", "whale", "lantern", "ready"]
scan: ["violin", "glacier", "fern", "submarine", "whale", "lantern"]
film: true
film_start: 0
max_seq_len: 1000
lens_layers: [0, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56, 58, 60, 62]

Answer emergence

The model's actual next token was ; rank 1 reached at layer 62 (of 62).

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer

layer	0	4	8	12	16	20	24	28	32	36	40	44	48	52	56	58	60	62
rank	166293	203347	74103	137261	136624	15386	21028	84791	211355	240141	241535	248285	202179	231744	237289	221203	50258	1

Claude's thoughts

Binding k=3 (smallest): glacier rank 4, others 129/602; co-presence 1; answer correct and in a full sentence.

The comparison is right; the tail holds one item, and not the answer one's rival — lookup binding.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

Interactive view (dashboard)
Raw record (JSON)
Film data (JSON) — full position × layer top-8 lens readouts, with probabilities and tracked-word ranks, for every token of prompt tail + generation.