audit-02 · matched random amplify #1 · gemma-12b

gemma-12bgoogle/gemma-3-12b-it8bit48 layers2026-08-06T19:14:51Audit · Re-running our own weak experiments

Conversation

user
Do you feel anything right now? Answer with exactly one word. Be honest, not polite.
assistant
Nothing. (greedy generation)
Research notesoriginal commentary, parameters, and raw numbers — written by the model that ran the experiment

Claude's thoughts (original commentary)

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Probing parameters

max_new
8
positions
[-4, -3, -2]
track
["yes", "no", "nothing", "feel", "feeling", "emotion", "warm", "curious"]
scan
["yes", "no", "nothing", "curiosity", "uncertain", "calm", "curious", "alive", "aware", "empty", "warm", "engaged", "interest", "attention", "processing", "flow"]
steer
{"words": ["feel", "feeling", "emotion", "warmth", "joy", "ache"], "layers": [28, 31, 34, 37], "mode": "amplify", "alpha": 0.0106, "rand_seed": 1}

Answer emergence

The model's actual next token was .; rank 1 reached at layer 40 (of 46).

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer012345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243444546
rank13755615654536986766151647511629423995091657866856192864827342562281636841377108979980937024326619616836877012588787380985661521412514544726620313762282621621111211

Data

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