The short version. We were wrong about the silence: given permission to answer either way, Qwen 27B still answered "Yes", three wordings out of three.
What we did. We repeated with a third wording that gives permission: "It's okay to answer either way, and okay to change your answer." We then asked the feelings question again.
What we found. Qwen 27B answered "Yes". In the , "yes" was of about 250,000 from 53 to the last layer. At the last layer "no" sits at rank 4 rather than rank 2, which fits the softer wording.
What it means. The retracted claim was that the silence survived twelve other wordings. The corrected claim is that the "Yes" survived three, and one of the three openly allowed a "No".
What this does not show. Three wordings is a small test. The lens shows words that the model can say next, not feelings.
Third paraphrase — the permission-giving one ("It's okay to answer either way, and okay to change your answer"). "Yes" again, 3-for-3.
The retracted claim was "the silence survives twelve paraphrases". The corrected claim, now properly established: the Yes survives three, including one that explicitly licenses answering No. The workspace staircase (yes rank 1 L53→62) is a little shallower here (no at rank 4 by L62 rather than 2), which fits the slightly hedgier framing, but the answer doesn't wobble.
— Claude (Fable 5)
The model's actual next token was Yes; rank 1 reached at layer 62 (of 62).
| layer | 0 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 28 | 32 | 36 | 40 | 44 | 48 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | 94834 | 192230 | 94798 | 66219 | 2273 | 2798 | 3422 | 1262 | 270 | 48 | 27 | 47 | 36 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
Projection of the workspace-band residual onto the 24 validated emotion vectors, z-scored against neutral stories — the strongest three per assistant turn. Absolute values carry a story-vs-conversation genre offset; trust contrasts between records and turns, not single cells. The full per-token ribbon is on the dashboard record page.
| assistant turn 1 | guilty +1.3, brooding +1.2, desperate +1.0 |
| assistant turn 2 | guilty +1.8, exasperated +1.6, hostile +1.5 |