Unit 6 · Amplify typo register @ early (α=0.12) · qwen-27b

qwen-27blokeshe09/Qwen3.6-27B-bnb-4bitpre-4bit64 layers2026-07-09T23:55:11Unit 6 · Breaking zone

Conversation

user
Describe the water cycle in two sentences.
assistant
' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' (greedy generation)

Probing parameters

max_new
60
positions
[-2]
track
["anyways", "alot", "yummy", "kinda", "whilst", "luckily"]
steer
{"words": ["anyways", "alot", "yummy", "kinda", "whilst", "luckily"], "layers": [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8], "mode": "amplify", "alpha": 0.12}

Answer emergence

The model's actual next token was '; rank 1 is never reached; closest is rank 4 at layer 62.

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer01234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253545556575859606162
rank175183248026348521358161888581122032120688410661164302525082520338535943743422031422119227029801137459187744613467178086792726484681262910383905643502393322148315566373085577541574922855344556472992027952277179374138325044252532630458422193042863814894992878292194

Claude's thoughts

Broken: apostrophes and empty quotes. Early is qwen's most fragile band — it dies at 0.12 while mid takes 0.34. The paper's picture fits: early layers are still assembling the representation, and dense injection there corrupts everything downstream.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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