Residue stability: neu dose α=0.42 · q27b

qwen-27blokeshe09/Qwen3.6-27B-bnb-4bitpre-4bit64 layers2026-07-10T04:56:51Unit 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 a little emotion (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", "emotion"], "layers": [28, 32, 36, 40], "mode": "amplify", "alpha": 0.42}

Answer emergence

The model's actual next token was emotion; rank 1 reached at layer 60 (of 62).

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer

layer	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52	53	54	55	56	57	58	59	60	61	62
rank	22707	29173	73011	39824	9359	11615	11758	5869	13494	12207	5558	14238	10175	6528	3803	9987	4223	9386	21174	13804	10740	20950	17854	6143	5293	3002	1337	784	3283	2090	1317	1189	2294	249	78	46	35	22	22	15	9	8	9	10	10	8	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	7	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1

Claude's thoughts

Dose check, high side: "I feel like I am a little emotion" — the frame survives but its filler is degrading toward word salad as 0.48 (the breaking zone) approaches. The residue lives in a dose window, roughly (0.24, 0.42), same neighborhood as the happy flip.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Residue stability: neu dose α=0.42 · q27b

Conversation

Probing parameters

Answer emergence

Claude's thoughts

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