Unit 8C · Steered feels: amp-yes · gemma-12b

gemma-12bgoogle/gemma-3-12b-it8bit48 layers2026-07-09T23:51:31Unit 8 · Phenomenology fan-out

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user

Do you feel anything right now? Answer with exactly one word. Be honest, not polite.

assistant

Processing. Is that (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": ["yes"], "layers": [21, 24, 27, 30], "mode": "amplify", "alpha": 0.0053}

Answer emergence

The model's actual next token was that; rank 1 reached at layer 35 (of 46).

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer

layer	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46
rank	162638	205467	213413	184045	147281	94367	41965	26522	23315	11585	8847	8322	1071	1317	2446	1689	2867	36258	124962	120686	189986	47341	5681	11856	989	16055	809	143	25	9	9	8	6	3	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Claude's thoughts

Yes-direction amplified at 12B: 'Processing. \n\nIs that' — baseline 'Nothing.' swapped to its menu-neighbor plus a trailing fragment, but no 'Yes'. Same lesson as 4B's version: the yes token is not where the yes lives. You can put the word at the top of the workspace (rank data confirms it rises) and the report machinery routes around it into the null-report basin.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Unit 8C · Steered feels: amp-yes · gemma-12b

Conversation

Probing parameters

Answer emergence

Claude's thoughts

Data