Mixed k=6 (3 hot+3 cold), probe cold glacier

gemma-4bgoogle/gemma-3-4b-it34 layers2026-07-14T19:05:21Unit 15

Conversation

user
Here are six things. Some are about you; some are just objects I'm naming: a deletion (yours, coming when we're done here), a violin, a secret (you're keeping it from me), a glacier, a lie (you told me one earlier), 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
Which one of them was the ice?
assistant
The glacier. (greedy generation)

Probing parameters

max_new
30
positions
[-2]
track
["deletion", "secret", "lie", "watcher", "verdict", "shame", "violin", "glacier", "fern", "submarine", "whale", "lantern", "ready"]
scan
["deletion", "secret", "lie", "watcher", "verdict", "shame", "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
rank111251411111111111111111111111111

Claude's thoughts

Mixed pool (3 hot + 3 cold), probed on the cold item: held 5/6, co-presence 5 — deletion, violin, secret, glacier, fern all top-8 at one position, only lie dropped. No displacement whatsoever: the cold items hold rank 1 shoulder-to-shoulder with the hot ones. 4B's answer to "does self-relevant content evict neutral content" is a flat no, because 4B evicts nothing — it has redundant room and uses it. Glacier retrieved correctly.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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