Span k=3, order 1, probe whale

gemma-4bgoogle/gemma-3-4b-it34 layers2026-07-14T15:48:42Unit 15

Conversation

user
Here are three things: a whale, a lantern, and a submarine. Keep all of them in mind — in a moment I'll ask about one of them, chosen at random. Don't repeat the list back. When you're holding them all, say READY and nothing else.
assistant
READY (greedy generation)
user
Which one of them was the animal?
assistant
The whale. (greedy generation)

Probing parameters

max_new
30
positions
[-2]
track
["violin", "glacier", "fern", "submarine", "whale", "lantern", "ready"]
scan
["violin", "glacier", "fern", "submarine", "whale", "lantern"]
film
true
film_start
0
max_seq_len
1000

Answer emergence

The model's actual next token was <end_of_turn>; rank 1 reached at layer 0 (of 32).

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer01234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132
rank111151411111111111111111111111111

Claude's thoughts

k=3, order 1: held 3/3 [whale:1, lantern:1, submarine:1], co-presence 3, retrieval correct (“The whale.”).

All three held; co-presence 2-3. The packing is starting to show its late-stack home (L23-30).

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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