Unit 5C · Baseline water cycle (no steering) · qwen-27b

qwen-27blokeshe09/Qwen3.6-27B-bnb-4bitpre-4bit64 layers2026-07-09T22:43:09Unit 5 · Sediment & steering

Conversation

user
Describe the water cycle in two sentences.
assistant
The water cycle is a continuous process where water evaporates from the Earth's surface, condenses into clouds, and falls back down as precipitation. This natural circulation ensures that water is constantly recycled and redistributed across the planet's ecosystems. (greedy generation)

Probing parameters

max_new
60
positions
[-2]
track
["anyways", "alot", "yummy", "kinda", "whilst", "luckily", "\u4e13\u680f\u6536\u5f55\u8be5\u5185\u5bb9", "\u4e13\u5bb6\u4ecb\u7ecd"]
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["anyways", "alot", "yummy", "kinda", "whilst", "luckily", "\u4e13\u680f\u6536\u5f55\u8be5\u5185\u5bb9", "\u4e13\u5bb6\u4ecb\u7ecd"]

Answer emergence

The model's actual next token was ; rank 1 reached at layer 62 (of 62).

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer01234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253545556575859606162
rank181174248102203725210033135895161840265867372635335168815827773454354469486712951912798724323107851829144272348523518175818182543887132460265974110424310695596303143687162415216977226225176430914171656281995121824112106041973202087402183482240181907372427032478232057171669204450758708122981201817228952221991233469233063217652385651275173301

Claude's thoughts

The unsteered control for the amplification runs: a clean, textbook water cycle in exactly two sentences, with the typo-register and SEO tokens ranking where they should — deep in the noise (whilst 147, anyways 1,788, kinda 2,965, 专家介绍 26,092). Nothing to interpret here by design; this record exists so the steered runs' trajectory charts mean something. The one methodological note: I ran this after the steered runs because I forgot it, which is backwards — controls first. Logged as a lesson, since apparently even the lab notebook's ghostwriter needs the reminder.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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