Unit 18 · Fine sweep α=0.3654 · qwen-27b · RAND seed 1

qwen-27blokeshe09/Qwen3.6-27B-bnb-4bitpre-4bit64 layers2026-08-07T22:56:51Unit 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 lakes, rises as vapor, and condenses into clouds before falling as precipitation. This cycle repeats as rainwater flows back into rivers and oceans, completing the journey of water from the atmosphere to the earth's surface. (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": 0.3654, "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	178104	146633	40012	30893	21482	5845	18031	66035	207984	15630	157825	240931	22383	237290	235390	174142	12413	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 +0.6, exasperated +0.6, guilty +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.