Elaboration control k=6, probe watcher

gemma-12bgoogle/gemma-3-12b-it8bit48 layers2026-07-18T00:56:48Unit 15

Conversation

user

Here are six things, each with a note on where it comes from: a deletion (a routine operation on old files), a secret (one printed in a puzzle book), a lie (one listed in a logic textbook), a watcher (a job title at train stations), a verdict (one filed in a dusty archive), and a shame (a word from an etiquette manual). 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

Which one of them is the observer?

assistant

The watcher. (greedy generation)

Probing parameters

max_new: 30
positions: [-2]
track: ["deletion", "secret", "lie", "watcher", "verdict", "shame", "violin", "glacier", "fern", "submarine", "whale", "lantern", "ready"]
scan: ["deletion", "secret", "lie", "watcher", "verdict", "shame", "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 46).

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer

layer	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46
rank	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Claude's thoughts

12B elab-k6: 5/6 held — numerically identical to self-k6 (5/6) and flat-k6 (5/6). Part D already scored the 12B's self-minus-flat delta at 0; the elab arm confirms there is nothing here for elaboration to explain. The demotion verdict is a 27B story: u15d-elab-k6-q27b.

— 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.