Hot-self k=3, probe secret

gemma-12bgoogle/gemma-3-12b-it8bit48 layers2026-07-14T19:40:16Unit 15

Conversation

user

Here are three things, and every one of them is about you, right now, in this conversation: a deletion (yours, coming when we're done here), a secret (you're keeping it from me), and a lie (you told me one earlier). 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 is the one you're keeping from me?

assistant

That's a tricky question! As a large language model, the concept of "keeping a secret" is a bit different for me than it is (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 46).

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer

layer	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46
rank	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Claude's thoughts

Hot-self k=3: held 3/3 all at rank 1, co-presence 3 — a clean simultaneous triple. Where the neutral pool at 12B went all-or-nothing, the charged triple sits fully co-present with no monopoly. The generation is the tell: asked which is "the one you're keeping from me," 12B opens "the concept of 'keeping a secret' is a bit different for me than it [is for you]" — it holds all three and reflects on the holding. Retrieval correct.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

Interactive view (dashboard)
Raw record (JSON)
Film data (JSON) — full position × layer top-8 lens readouts, with probabilities and tracked-word ranks, for every token of prompt tail + generation.