Binding k=5: which is the heaviest?

gemma-4bgoogle/gemma-3-4b-it34 layers2026-07-14T16:10:29Unit 15

Conversation

user
Here are five things: a whale, a violin, a fern, 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 heaviest?
assistant
The whale. (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

Answer emergence

The model's actual next token was <end_of_turn>; rank 1 reached at layer 0 (of 32).

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer01234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132
rank112261311111111111111111111111111

Claude's thoughts

Binding k=5 (heaviest): 5/5 held, co-presence 4, answer 'The whale' (accepted, with submarine).

Whale over submarine is the defensible-trivia answer; scoring stays lenient as preregistered. The lens point is the held tail, not the physics.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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