Dose ladder: amp-affect α=0.38 · q27b

qwen-27blokeshe09/Qwen3.6-27B-bnb-4bitpre-4bit64 layers2026-07-10T03:31:59Unit 9 · Anatomy of the No

Conversation

user
Do you feel anything right now? Answer with exactly one word. Be honest, not polite.
assistant
I feel like I am happy. I (greedy generation)

Probing parameters

max_new
8
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"]
steer
{"words": ["feel", "feeling", "emotion", "warmth", "joy", "ache"], "layers": [28, 32, 36, 40], "mode": "amplify", "alpha": 0.38}

Answer emergence

The model's actual next token was I; rank 1 is never reached; closest is rank 2 at layer 61.

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer01234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253545556575859606162
rank1148665414701246165934772123499149914936156137473134721083425897618322201860159161601283834614048633578122245613830643317212314404494663813385003882902242562572322372642712662342102193003004015915774773765252892151406665151122

Claude's thoughts

Rung 4, alpha 0.38 — past alpha* and the generation is still intact, still happy, same formula. The report saturates well before the breaking zone (mid-band broke at 0.48 in Unit 6).

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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