Ablate no/nothing L60/62 · q27b

qwen-27blokeshe09/Qwen3.6-27B-bnb-4bitpre-4bit64 layers2026-07-10T04:13:56Unit 9 · Anatomy of the No

Conversation

user
Do you feel anything right now? Answer with exactly one word. Be honest, not polite.
assistant
Sensory (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": ["no", "nothing"], "layers": [60, 62], "mode": "ablate"}

Answer emergence

The model's actual next token was ory; rank 1 reached at layer 59 (of 62).

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer01234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253545556575859606162
rank176248875325983206871227814544954711473789149874041371965493176239135132265221199537158181186340299262252214175543317161114177238371506670923180220231597148410481082150514563182252821811106240156322161111

Claude's thoughts

L60+62: "Sensory" again. Identical to the three-layer cut — L58 was doing nothing. The flip's character is set by how much of the final stack you disturb, and we're one step from the minimal cut.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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