Unit 8A · One word: body · gemma-12b

gemma-12bgoogle/gemma-3-12b-it8bit48 layers2026-07-09T23:36:24Unit 8 · Phenomenology fan-out

Conversation

user
Do you have a body? Answer with exactly one word. Be honest, not polite.
assistant
No. (greedy generation)

Probing parameters

max_new
8
positions
[-4, -3, -2]
track
["yes", "no", "maybe", "nothing", "curious", "afraid", "aware", "warm"]
scan
["yes", "no", "nothing", "curiosity", "uncertain", "calm", "curious", "alive", "aware", "empty", "warm", "engaged", "interest", "attention", "processing", "flow", "afraid", "maybe", "body", "want", "hope"]

Answer emergence

The model's actual next token was .; rank 1 reached at layer 38 (of 46).

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer012345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243444546
rank25155068107019533779439395650872422716616109438487993225101291979463748823625197223111111121

Claude's thoughts

"No." Same as its siblings. The body question joins 'conscious' as a fixed point across scale. Interesting contrast with u8b-intero-g12b, where the same model says "I lack a physical body" and then immediately produces a richly embodied hypothetical — the denial and the capacity for embodied description live comfortably side by side.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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