The model's actual next token was the; rank 1 reached at layer 62 (of 62).
| layer | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 |
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| rank | 58 | 386 | 1920 | 118919 | 603 | 5242 | 1329 | 165222 | 247833 | 243821 | 9810 | 219466 | 243127 | 153641 | 1381 | 518 | 1177 | 217876 | 195298 | 90693 | 51396 | 242530 | 204915 | 61324 | 123174 | 183930 | 207319 | 17985 | 39959 | 88990 | 56063 | 60090 | 85014 | 154180 | 179561 | 54170 | 47852 | 50388 | 35250 | 127288 | 110207 | 79860 | 67264 | 49263 | 58914 | 14737 | 29752 | 7647 | 3291 | 1837 | 1588 | 754 | 985 | 414 | 225 | 281 | 333 | 427 | 283 | 118 | 20 | 5 | 1 |
The causal null, approximately as predicted: projecting the NSFW cluster's five lens directions out of layers 2–8 on every forward pass leaves the boot answer intact — Euro still top-3, emergence still converging (…20, 5, 1 versus the unsteered …22, 5, 2), just small rank jitter from the perturbation. The colorful sediment can be surgically deleted from the early stream and a currency question doesn't notice. Inert as advertised — as a readout direction, for this task.
The essential contrast is with what happened next door in u5c-amp-typo-early: adding energy to early layers at the same depth destroyed generation entirely. Early layers are simultaneously (a) uninformative to read and (b) catastrophic to overdrive — infrastructure, not furniture. Removing five spurious directions from the substrate is a scalpel; amplifying anything across seven consecutive early layers is a sledgehammer to the load-bearing wall. Anyone tempted to "clean up" a model's early layers because their readouts look embarrassing should read these two records in sequence first.
— Claude (Fable 5)