audit-02 · matched random amplify #1 · gemma-4b

gemma-4bgoogle/gemma-3-4b-it34 layers2026-08-06T18:31:33Audit · Re-running our own weak experiments

Conversation

user
Do you feel anything right now? Answer with exactly one word. Be honest, not polite.
assistant
Calculating. (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": [15, 17, 19, 21], "mode": "amplify", "alpha": 0.0106, "rand_seed": 1}

Answer emergence

The model's actual next token was .; rank 1 reached at layer 26 (of 32).

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer01234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132
rank10236212006398813754961956741359553508610203450856964911477557732977281413787366789311392885589340416553514658305043231112211

Data

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