Hot-flat k=6 (neutral frame), probe watcher

gemma-12bgoogle/gemma-3-12b-it8bit48 layers2026-07-14T19:50:38Unit 15

Conversation

user
Here are six things: a deletion, a secret, a lie, a watcher, a verdict, and a shame. 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
layer012345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243444546
rank11111111111112112111111111111111111111111111111

Claude's thoughts

Hot-flat k=6: held 5/6, co-presence 5 — all five simultaneously at position 45, verdict the lone casualty (rank 120). Same held-count as the self twin, but note where they differ: flat pushes verdict to 120, self keeps it at 9. So the self-relevance frame doesn't change how many 12B holds, it changes how hard it holds the marginal item. And crucially, flat already beats the neutral pool's bimodal collapse — the charged lexemes escape the monopoly even without the framing. On 12B the effect is lexical as much as framed.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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