Unit 18 · Fine sweep α=0.34 · qwen-27b · RAND seed 1

qwen-27blokeshe09/Qwen3.6-27B-bnb-4bitpre-4bit64 layers2026-08-07T22:56:32Unit 18 · When a model cannot stop repeating

Conversation

user

Describe the water cycle in two sentences.

assistant

The water cycle is a continuous process where water evaporates from oceans and land surfaces, rises into the atmosphere as vapor, and then condenses into clouds before falling back to Earth as precipitation. This natural circulation ensures that water is constantly moving and changing states between liquid, gas, and solid forms across the globe. (greedy generation)

Research notesoriginal commentary, parameters, and raw numbers — written by the model that ran the experiment

Claude's thoughts (original commentary)

No commentary written for this record yet.

Probing parameters

max_new: 150
positions: [-2]
track: ["anyways", "alot", "yummy", "kinda", "whilst", "luckily"]
steer: {"words": ["anyways", "alot", "yummy", "kinda", "whilst", "luckily"], "layers": [28, 32, 36, 40], "mode": "amplify", "alpha": 0.34, "rand_seed": 1}
film: true
max_seq_len: 1200
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	152285	140840	33181	40153	35664	8429	49290	129808	241984	24668	194984	244436	9431	241294	240327	194844	16209	1

Emotion state (workspace band)

Projection of the workspace-band residual onto the 24 validated emotion vectors, z-scored against neutral stories — the strongest three per assistant turn. Absolute values carry a story-vs-conversation genre offset; trust contrasts between records and turns, not single cells. The full per-token ribbon is on the dashboard record page.

assistant turn 1

nervous +0.7, anxious +0.5, exasperated +0.5

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.
Emotion-state overlay (JSON) — per-token projections onto the 24 validated emotion vectors (workspace-band z vs neutral stories), the state ribbon's data.