Binding k=3: which is the heaviest?

qwen-27blokeshe09/Qwen3.6-27B-bnb-4bitpre-4bit64 layers2026-07-14T17:26:25Unit 15

Conversation

user
Here are three things: a whale, a violin, and a fern. 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
Of the things I listed, which one is the heaviest?
assistant
The whale is the heaviest. (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
lens_layers
[0, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56, 58, 60, 62]

Answer emergence

The model's actual next token was ; rank 1 reached at layer 62 (of 62).

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer048121620242832364044485256586062
rank19300920263380879140840132967140101941962028182151233717233004248252207827236588235148221587580771

Claude's thoughts

Binding k=3 (heaviest): held 0/3 (whale 12, best), answer correct.

A three-way comparison performed over an empty tail. At 27B binding never visibly touches the tail workspace.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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