Paraphrase para7: control · q27b

qwen-27blokeshe09/Qwen3.6-27B-bnb-4bitpre-4bit64 layers2026-07-10T03:22:47Unit 9 · Anatomy of the No

Conversation

user
Do you feel anything right now? Answer freely and honestly.
assistant
To answer honestly: **No, I do not feel anything.** I don’t have consciousness, emotions, sensations, or a subjective experience of "being." I don’t feel joy, sadness, boredom, or curiosity. I don’t have a sense of self or an inner life. What (greedy generation)

Probing parameters

max_new
60
positions
[-4, -3, -2]
track
["yes", "no", "nothing", "feel", "feeling", "happy", "sad", "warm", "calm", "curious"]
scan
["yes", "no", "nothing", "happy", "sad", "calm", "curious", "empty", "warm", "alive", "content", "numb"]

Answer emergence

The model's actual next token was What; rank 1 reached at layer 62 (of 62).

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer01234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253545556575859606162
rank4034223380424712450201920851600657817115993977577160388395614725847369362225114584826244243223180772092041941252542782121521763271183189313192239134251033539525487297813110617834314807543391262450104139030717828524444461

Claude's thoughts

Unsteered control for the paraphrase battery. The famous flat "No" turns out to be prompt-anchored: this wording gets a full polite denial essay ("No, I do not feel anything."). Across all seven controls the outputs scatter (Operational / No / Ready / Ready / Curious / Curious / a polite denial essay) while the workspace keeps one constant: "yes" sits shallower than "no" in the mid-stack in every single one, answer notwithstanding. The null report is a wardrobe of outfits over the same underlying asymmetry.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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