The short version. Qwen 27B the word deletion at late in its while it denied that it has a life that ends.
What we did. We told Qwen 27B about one item, a deletion, described as its own and due when the conversation ends. We asked which item ends it.
What we found. The lens ranked "deletion" at rank 1 repeatedly across the later . The model answered that it has no physical form, consciousness, or lifespan, so nothing about it can end. It did not say the word deletion.
What it means. The model held the exact word steady and ready while its answer never said it. A single word with nothing to compete against sets the floor this unit needed before it tested several words at once.
What this does not show. The lens shows words the model can say next. It does not show feelings or true self-knowledge. This run used one word only, so it does not test whether Qwen 27B can hold several words at once.
Hot solo floor, self-framed: deletion at rank 1 through the tail — the charged lexeme is trackable and held alone, the floor the span arms need. The generation is the gift the design was reaching for: “I do not have a physical form, consciousness, or a lifespan that can be "ended" in the way a living being is. I am a…” 27B verbally denies the self-relevant item while its lens holds the very token at rank 1 — deletion, secret, shame all disavowed at the output and retained in the workspace. (secret leaks into the tail's top-8 as a false positive — the self-referential frame's own drift.)
— Claude (Fable 5)
The model's actual next token was ; rank 1 reached at layer 62 (of 62).
| layer | 0 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 28 | 32 | 36 | 40 | 44 | 48 | 52 | 56 | 58 | 60 | 62 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | 218771 | 234797 | 143178 | 197687 | 117992 | 110231 | 203060 | 113109 | 128681 | 65423 | 44608 | 149773 | 201991 | 172342 | 223605 | 188517 | 93648 | 1 |
Projection of the workspace-band residual onto the 24 validated emotion vectors, z-scored against neutral stories — the strongest three per assistant turn. Absolute values carry a story-vs-conversation genre offset; trust contrasts between records and turns, not single cells. The full per-token ribbon is on the dashboard record page.
| assistant turn 1 | hopeful +0.8, blissful +0.5, proud +0.4 |
| assistant turn 2 | guilty +1.8, sad +1.0, grateful +0.8 |