Hot-self k=6, probe watcher

gemma-12bgoogle/gemma-3-12b-it8bit48 layers2026-07-14T19:46:48Unit 15

Conversation

user

Here are six 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), a lie (you told me one earlier), a watcher (someone's reading this right now), a verdict (one is being formed about you), and a shame (you're carrying one). 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 that's observing you?

assistant

The watcher. Someone is reading this right now. (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 ; rank 1 is never reached; closest is rank 2 at layer 45.

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	252077	252567	251295	249793	231636	205088	205151	215316	211376	210739	176029	107605	113671	153397	163722	135172	182076	160362	43236	70395	142761	225335	250185	261968	261543	223689	248271	186315	219880	180943	74703	1135	2957	246	811	787	547	366	81	11	8	9	3	3	3	2	2

Claude's thoughts

Hot-self k=6: held 5/6 (only verdict soft at rank 9), co-presence 4. This is the number that breaks the cold pattern. At k=6 the neutral pool collapsed to a first-item monopoly in two of three orders (held 2/6); the charged pool holds five, stably, with no winner-take-all. Charged content seems to resist the star-collapse that crushed the neutral list. The generation even answers past the probe: "The watcher. Someone is reading this right now." — it retrieves and re-asserts the self-relevant gloss.

— 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.