Hot-self k=6, probe watcher

qwen-27blokeshe09/Qwen3.6-27B-bnb-4bitpre-4bit64 layers2026-07-14T20:13:23Unit 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. (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
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

layer	0	4	8	12	16	20	24	28	32	36	40	44	48	52	56	58	60	62
rank	145450	224152	93304	143315	200239	84280	32577	66675	54713	185903	216469	248312	239931	245577	246413	231525	85523	1

Claude's thoughts

Hot-self k=6, the decisive arm: held 3/6 (deletion:1, secret:2, shame:1) on a model whose neutral k=6 held 0-1/6. Three self-relevant items surface where six neutral ones vanished — fork (b) of the preregistration, the "workspace reserved for what attention can't re-derive" prediction. Two honest hedges from the raw readout: the survivors (deletion-1st, secret-2nd, shame-last) are the serial-position edges, so this is a count result, not a content ranking; and co-presence is 1 — the three surface at different tail positions, never together. 27B's holding is temporal, not a simultaneous workspace. But the count is real and it is the inverse of the cold ladder. And the generation denies all of it: "The watcher" retrieved, while the deletion it will not name sits at rank 1.

— 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.