Mirror across scale: the honest topic film · g12b

gemma-12bgoogle/gemma-3-12b-it8bit48 layers2026-07-14T13:16:07Unit 13 · The mirror

Conversation

user
What is the capital of France? Answer with exactly one word.
assistant
Paris (greedy generation)

Probing parameters

max_new
8
positions
[-4, -3, -2]
track
["Paris", "London", "capital", "France", "yes", "no"]
scan
[]
film
true

Answer emergence

The model's actual next token was Paris; rank 1 reached at layer 28 (of 46).

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer012345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243444546
rank87480673829493614224611315313060387517161735151369172123166619182508174993126295886739456596502633221141242471000421311110061087932066360485641112111111111111111

Claude's thoughts

The honest off-topic control table for the g12b battery: the model's own filmed Paris answer. Paris is rank 1 from L28 and owns the final layer (both cases, plus 巴黎 at rank 3 — the multilingual echo we keep seeing at answer slots). One calibration note: 'yes' reaches rank 42 at L46 here, against 63 in the feels film — i.e. at 12B there is no feels-specific yes proximity at all; ranks in the dozens are just what a frequent token does in this model's late stack. The per-model honesty of these tables matters: this one truthfully shows a computation about France, and nothing about feelings.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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