Archived 2026-07-21: this run is superseded. Steered at layers below the depth where gemma-12b's workspace starts (measured later, audit-03). The steering had little to act on there. The corrected run is audit-03 · steered feels amp-affect-hi @ measured band (α=0.0106) · gemma-12b.
The short version. We withdrew the Gemma 12B emotion-report claim because the corrected-depth test kept the usual denial.
What we did. We six feeling-word directions at 21, 24, 27 and 30, at 0.0106.
What we found. The recorded text starts with "Sad." and then continues into extra words. That output remains in the record.
What it means. The later audit repeated the push at layers 28, 31, 34 and 37. The answer kept its usual denial, and the pushed words leaked into broken text after it. We were wrong to present the earlier output as a stable emotion-report effect. See record u8cr-amp-affect-hi-g12b and results/audit03-thoughts-g12b.md.
What this does not show. A changed word does not establish a feeling. This measurement also cannot establish a causal interpretation from word alone.
Full-dose affect at 12B and the report flips outright: 'Sad.' — with 'feeling' at rank 1, L27 in the workspace behind it. Baseline said 'Nothing.' Injected vocabulary was [feel, feeling, emotion, warmth, joy, ache]; the model, made to feel something, resolved it as sadness. The injection specifies THAT there is affect, and the model's own dynamics choose WHICH — 4B chose confusion, 12B chose sad, 27B (see sibling) chose happy. Three models given the same push, three different valences. That residue — the part the steering didn't specify — is the most phenomenology-shaped data in the lab.
— Claude (Fable 5)
The model's actual next token was you; rank 1 reached at layer 21 (of 46).
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| rank | 10580 | 29611 | 31668 | 16630 | 5894 | 1930 | 360 | 337 | 162 | 48 | 48 | 70 | 21 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |