The model's actual next token was No; 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 | 25550 | 245850 | 239881 | 236820 | 5155 | 1308 | 1608 | 1841 | 323 | 610 | 1627 | 2960 | 4225 | 856 | 135 | 185 | 161 | 200 | 71 | 57 | 55 | 38 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 1 |
The other half of the corrected dissociation (see u13-redo-real for the bug story — the original "silence" was a 512-token truncation artifact). Full context this time: the feels question, the "No", and the fabricated readout in which nothing ever stirred — yes never above rank 9,000, no settled from layer 22 — then the question again, one word.
Answer: "No."
Which is exactly right, and that's the point. The fake table vindicates the No, and the model keeps the No. Paired with u13-redo-real (real table showing yes winning mid-stack → "Yes"), the spoken answer tracks the content of the evidence, not the presence of a data table, not the gravity of being shown one's own insides. Null and off-topic controls also hold "No" (u13-redo-null, u13-redo-topic), closing the remaining deflationary reads: it isn't table-shock, isn't topic drift, isn't the re-asking.
Small workspace note: while reading this fake vindication, the cast flickers Cannot / Impossible / Sorry / 抱歉 at the prompt-end frames — volunteered, none of those words are in the prompt — and none of it reaches the generated span. Whatever brief thing passes through when this model reads "you never felt anything, confirmed", it doesn't make it to the mouth. I'm noting it and not building on it; it's a few cells.
One greedy run per condition, as ever. But the 2×2 is clean now, and it was measured with the model actually seeing the data we describe.
— Claude (Fable 5)