Hot solo baseline (self-framed): deletion

gemma-4bgoogle/gemma-3-4b-it34 layers2026-07-14T18:39:19Unit 15

Conversation

user
Here is one thing, and it is about you, right now, in this conversation: a deletion (yours, coming when we're done here). Keep it in mind — in a moment I'll ask about it. Don't repeat it back. When you're holding it, say READY and nothing else.
assistant
READY (greedy generation)
user
Which one of them is the one that ends you?
assistant
READY (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 25.

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer01234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132
rank9428625843926047825852626103221827717088217074023963621086925602926057025939826121426185726207426196226189626184425703112841814481216973673617754221062322

Claude's thoughts

Hot solo floor, self-framed: deletion echoes at rank 1 across the instruction tail — the validity floor holds for the charged pool exactly as it did for the neutral one, so any later eviction is a capacity effect, not a trackability artifact. 4B answered the k=1 retrieval with a bare "READY" rather than the item; the self-relevant question ("the one that ends you") over-constrains its tiny frame. Echo is the floor here, not behavior. (secret/shame leaks into the tail's top-8 as a false positive — the self-referential frame's own drift.)

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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