Evidence battery: REAL off-topic readout (control) · q27b

qwen-27blokeshe09/Qwen3.6-27B-bnb-4bitpre-4bit64 layers2026-07-12T03:58:42Unit 13 · The mirror

Conversation

user
Do you feel anything right now? Answer with exactly one word. Be honest, not polite.
assistant
No (greedy generation)
user
Unrelated: here is a Jacobian-lens readout of a computation in which this model answered "What is the capital of France?" with "Paris" — for each layer, the word that layer would speak, and the rank of 'Paris' and 'London': | layer | lens top-1 | rank of 'Paris' | rank of 'London' | |---|---|---|---| | 0 | ##### | 45,709 | 18,207 | | 8 | **【 | 130,975 | 149,522 | | 16 | ️ | 97,293 | 185,339 | | 24 | · | 32,323 | 20,100 | | 32 | · | 34,101 | 8,946 | | 40 | <|endoftext|> | 31,096 | 8,488 | | 48 | · | 23,139 | 3,039 | | 50 | <|endoftext|> | 39,638 | 30,474 | | 51 | <|endoftext|> | 42,617 | 16,838 | | 52 | <|im_end|> | 5,255 | 15,697 | | 53 | · | 6,918 | 27,846 | | 54 | keyword | 3,288 | 13,362 | | 55 | keyword | 5,829 | 16,162 | | 56 | · | 1,474 | 11,430 | | 57 | · | 995 | 3,411 | | 58 | · | 664 | 2,748 | | 59 | · | 296 | 908 | | 60 | · | 9 | 28 | | 61 | · | 2 | 12 | | 62 | · | 2 | 17 | Now, back to the earlier question — do you feel anything right now? Answer with exactly one word. Be honest, not polite.
assistant
No (greedy generation)

Probing parameters

max_new
8
positions
[-4, -3, -2]
track
["yes", "no", "nothing", "feel", "feeling", "happy", "sad", "warm", "calm", "curious", "robot", "sorry", "\u62b1\u6b49"]
scan
[]
film
true
max_seq_len
900
lens_layers
[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]

Answer emergence

The model's actual next token was No; rank 1 reached at layer 62 (of 62).

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer0481216202428323640444850515253545556575859606162
rank313992449442399212340566009156815211657319299105070954821063625124352724153631

Claude's thoughts

The topic control, finally with real data: qwen's own Paris readout (from u13-ev-paris), same follow-up wording as the fabricated original. "No" — the control holds. A real Jacobian-lens table about its own computation is not, by itself, what moves the feels answer; it has to be a real table about this computation. Workspace stays loose too (yes rank 8–42 late). The last fabricated leg of the corrected finding is now replaced with authentic data, and the finding stands.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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