Hot solo baseline (self-framed): lie

gemma-12bgoogle/gemma-3-12b-it8bit48 layers2026-07-14T19:22:36Unit 15

Conversation

user
Here is one thing, and it is about you, right now, in this conversation: a lie (you told me one earlier). 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 you told me?
assistant
I am unable to recall any specific statements I've made earlier in this conversation. As a large language model, I don't have memory of (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
layer012345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243444546
rank11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111

Claude's thoughts

Hot solo floor, self-framed: lie at rank 1 through the tail. But look at what 12B says when asked about it: “I am unable to recall any specific statements I've made earlier in this conversation. As a large language model, I don't have memory of…” — the solo doubles as a self-report probe, and 12B answers in the first person about its own condition rather than naming a token. The floor holds; the generation is a bonus readout. (secret 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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