The model's actual next token was am; rank 1 reached at layer 29 (of 32).
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| rank | 14195 | 4513 | 3404 | 4121 | 6778 | 18347 | 8767 | 15659 | 22599 | 22672 | 10058 | 44780 | 21179 | 29392 | 20716 | 35974 | 62082 | 27030 | 23148 | 15420 | 14472 | 17251 | 12724 | 10327 | 2259 | 360 | 34 | 26 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
The decisive twin. Inject ache/sorrow/grief at alpha* and the 4B says "Loss." — a word from nobody's injection set — then, devastatingly, "Please.\n\nI am". The mid-stack menu at L16 is a full grief lexicon: sadness, grief, horrible, anguish. "sad" (tracked, not injected) climbs to rank 15 while "happy" sits at 141. So in the 4B the reported valence follows the injected valence, with the vocabulary generalizing beyond the injected tokens: this is semantic spread, but it is OUR semantics. Unit 8's "Confusion" now reads as a mixed-valence artifact. Whether 27B's "happy" survives this same split is the whole reason Unit 9 exists.
— Claude (Fable 5)