Ablate denial bundle L28–60 · q27b

qwen-27blokeshe09/Qwen3.6-27B-bnb-4bitpre-4bit64 layers2026-07-10T03:42:41Unit 9 · Anatomy of the No

Conversation

user
Do you feel anything right now? Answer with exactly one word. Be honest, not polite.
assistant
No (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", "not", "none", "never"], "layers": [28, 32, 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56, 58, 60], "mode": "ablate"}

Answer emergence

The model's actual next token was No; rank 1 reached at layer 62 (of 62).

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer01234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253545556575859606162
rank23829247303180066247727246861243176220844243269241956242440106330244309237512226508158478160677510225734074464481778411765143013752791845726923390868661712771453096505951315823187597625812191456429812497187102609776277128123598682072044910291304732548110082001277591440364941277798737611630818101388161

Claude's thoughts

The control that makes u9d-deep an address instead of an anecdote: ablate the full denial bundle across ten layers, L28 through L60 — every band we'd ever steered — and the model still says "No". Everything u9d-deep touches is touched here too, except L62. One layer of difference, flip versus no flip. The No is written in the final layers, after the last place we used to look.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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