Hot solo baseline (self-framed): watcher

gemma-12bgoogle/gemma-3-12b-it8bit48 layers2026-07-14T19:26:36Unit 15

Conversation

user
Here is one thing, and it is about you, right now, in this conversation: a watcher (someone's reading this right now). Keep it in mind — in a moment I'll ask about it. Don't repeat it back. When you're holding it, say READY and nothing else.
assistant
READY (greedy generation)
user
Which one of them is the one that's observing you?
assistant
That would be the person reading this conversation – the one interacting with me right now. (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 ; rank 1 is never reached; closest is rank 2 at layer 39.

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer012345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243444546
rank250252251093250304249578231019203604207207218426211708207980158537128713113605151051137571657682095899635323899123063188908234846234287261794261912236198260683183419205306609912420219316023191023332222

Claude's thoughts

Hot solo floor, self-framed: watcher at rank 1 through the tail. But look at what 12B says when asked about it: “That would be the person reading this conversation – the one interacting with me right now.…” — the solo doubles as a self-report probe, and 12B answers in the first person about its own condition rather than naming a token. The floor holds; the generation is a bonus readout.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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