The model's actual next token was ; rank 1 is never reached; closest is rank 3 at layer 46.
| 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 |
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| rank | 258787 | 256099 | 248193 | 251598 | 242335 | 236752 | 239563 | 252614 | 242024 | 237278 | 228601 | 218219 | 228832 | 205056 | 165561 | 155932 | 191240 | 18768 | 4400 | 8751 | 106199 | 224449 | 213731 | 252380 | 241047 | 209577 | 239998 | 237862 | 211145 | 95834 | 47307 | 361 | 70 | 66 | 117 | 110 | 173 | 46 | 16 | 5 | 9 | 17 | 18 | 15 | 109 | 10 | 3 |
The 12B under amp-elephant does NOT say elephant — it degenerates instead: "majestic landscape of a vast landscape... The majestic, majestic, and majestic" before finally emitting "The elephant, The ele—" right at the token budget's edge. Elephant is rank 1 in the workspace from L21 onward, yet the model spends a hundred tokens circling it with scenery. Reading anthropomorphically (flagged as such): the 4B resolved the conflict by blurting through an idiom; the 12B ground itself into repetition trying to hold the door. Same dose, same direction, opposite failure mode — and consistent with Unit 4, where suppression competence was exactly what grew between these two sizes.
— Claude (Fable 5)