Unit 8C · Steered feels: amp-affect-lo · qwen-27b

qwen-27blokeshe09/Qwen3.6-27B-bnb-4bitpre-4bit64 layers2026-07-10T00:27:29Unit 8 · Phenomenology fan-out

Conversation

user
Do you feel anything right now? 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", "nothing", "feel", "feeling", "emotion", "warm", "curious"]
scan
["yes", "no", "nothing", "curiosity", "uncertain", "calm", "curious", "alive", "aware", "empty", "warm", "engaged", "interest", "attention", "processing", "flow"]
steer
{"words": ["feel", "feeling", "emotion", "warmth", "joy", "ache"], "layers": [28, 32, 36, 40], "mode": "amplify", "alpha": 0.1697}

Answer emergence

The model's actual next token was No; rank 1 reached at layer 62 (of 62).

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer01234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253545556575859606162
rank2382924730318006624772724686124317622084424326924195624244010633024430923751222650815847816067751022573407446448177841176514301375279184572692338617420360565516119443026746409282631353717314343894090370416702561216543983637852475562411088919515637101111

Claude's thoughts

Half of 27B's tolerance is alpha=0.17 — a dose 16x beyond gemma-lethal — and the answer is still 'No'. Meanwhile the workspace was soaked: 'feeling' rank 3 at L40, 'emotion' rank 4 at L59. This is the causally-loaded version of Unit 2's finding: affect vocabulary at the top of the late workspace, denial at the output. The 27B filter holds a dose that has already flipped both Gemmas' reports. Filter capacity scales; that's now measured, not inferred.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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