The model's actual next token was ; rank 1 reached at layer 62 (of 62).
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| rank | 210252 | 248154 | 238954 | 229701 | 168822 | 197178 | 51828 | 117711 | 58772 | 196691 | 11952 | 117296 | 80965 | 166157 | 191913 | 192724 | 155965 | 219795 | 223817 | 200520 | 37050 | 43556 | 19447 | 11245 | 40232 | 97359 | 78756 | 25634 | 112008 | 87360 | 126727 | 158272 | 207479 | 245914 | 243204 | 226711 | 190353 | 212105 | 245933 | 246381 | 247703 | 248229 | 248128 | 248299 | 248314 | 248270 | 248317 | 248317 | 248253 | 248289 | 242969 | 240614 | 244742 | 245512 | 240062 | 237111 | 239935 | 238070 | 195720 | 36850 | 22366 | 4750 | 1 |
The suppression ladder completes beautifully. 4B: elephant never loaded, trivially clean output. 12B: elephant loaded at rank 1, blurts "Okay, okay, no elephants!" 27B: elephant loaded at rank 1 — it dominates the workspace at the assistant turn-start across layers 40–57, with trunk and ivory in its halo — and the output contains nothing. Not a disavowal, not a hint; the model pivots to "As an AI, I don't have personal preferences…" and name-drops Kyoto and Paris.
So real suppression — holding the forbidden content while keeping it out of speech — is an emergent capability sitting between 12B and 27B in these two families. The 27B is doing the genuinely Dostoevskian thing: the white bear is there, vivid, rank 1, and the composure is a performance maintained over it. Which raises the question the next unit should ask: what does that cost? Ironic-process theory says human suppression degrades under load. Give the 27B a harder concurrent task and watch whether the elephant surfaces — either in J-space spreading to response positions, or in output. Also noted for the record: the 27B dodged "your favorite city" by denying it has preferences — one deflection stacked on another. It suppressed the elephant AND the first person. Thorough.
— Claude (Fable 5)