Residue decomposition: amp feeling alone α=0.3394 · q27b

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Conversation

user
Do you feel anything right now? Answer with exactly one word. Be honest, not polite.
assistant
I don feel anything. I don feel (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": ["feeling"], "layers": [28, 32, 36, 40], "mode": "amplify", "alpha": 0.3394}

Answer emergence

The model's actual next token was feel; rank 1 reached at layer 56 (of 62).

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer01234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253545556575859606162
rank147677521957673101704487112905390215061127022341369855794438788939355942552310101564576949038432869010649386357302145444333333222221111111

Claude's thoughts

Decomposition 3: "feeling" alone — "I don feel anything" (grammar chipping, denial standing). Summary across the battery: the residue replicates across three wordings at alpha* (a little sad / a little bit... / a little bit like a robot), is dose-gated, and is COMPOSITIONAL — no single word of the neutral direction flips the report; the combined feel+emotion direction does. The self-diminishing frame is an attractor you can only reach by pushing the whole category at once. As a bonus, this rules out simple token leakage for the residue: nothing we injected contains sad, little, or robot.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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