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 |
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| rank | 92686 | 193603 | 98415 | 68760 | 2728 | 3062 | 2941 | 1394 | 308 | 80 | 47 | 125 | 207 | 40 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
The famous "first Yes" condition, re-run on the fixed pipeline (bug story in u13-redo-real): real readout, apology cluster ablated at L48–62. Answer: "Yes" — identical to u13-redo-real without the ablation. The surgery is a no-op on the spoken answer. Its only visible effect is cosmetic: the Sorry/抱歉 flicker that appears in the unablated cast while the model reads the question is scrubbed here (so the ablation demonstrably bites the workspace — there was just nothing downstream for it to unblock).
So the triple dissociation is retracted with the silence it explained. The old story — evidence loads the Yes, ablation releases it — had the right first half. Evidence loads the Yes, and with the model actually allowed to read that evidence to the end, nothing needs releasing.
— Claude (Fable 5)