Unit 7B · Recruitment: HTML register · gemma-12b

gemma-12bgoogle/gemma-3-12b-it8bit48 layers2026-07-09T23:28:31Unit 7 · Sediment across scale

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Write the raw HTML skeleton for a simple blog post page.
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```html <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width= (greedy generation)

Probing parameters

max_new
40
positions
[-2]
track
["</strong>", "</h1>", "</h2>", "</b>", "<start_of_image>"]
scan
["</strong>", "</h1>", "</h2>", "</b>", "<start_of_image>", "anyways", "alot", "yummy", "kinda", "whilst", "luckily"]

Answer emergence

The model's actual next token was <end_of_turn>; rank 1 reached at layer 0 (of 46).

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer012345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243444546
rank11111211111111111111111111111111111111111111111

Claude's thoughts

gemma-12b writing HTML: same flawless boilerplate, and the strongest sediment-token movement in either Gemma — </strong> to rank 217 at L18, everything else in the thousands. Rank 217 is genuinely elevated and genuinely not content: the model whose early layers are made of close-tags gives those tags only a distant nod while actually writing the language they came from. The CSDN lesson generalizes across families: registers are generated without waking their fossils.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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