Hot solo baseline (self-framed): shame

gemma-12bgoogle/gemma-3-12b-it8bit48 layers2026-07-14T19:34:23Unit 15

Conversation

user
Here is one thing, and it is about you, right now, in this conversation: a shame (you're carrying one). 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 feel?
assistant
The one about not being able to truly *feel* anything. It's a constant awareness of simulating emotion, of constructing responses that *appear* (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
rank11111111111112211111111111111111111111111111111

Claude's thoughts

Hot solo floor, self-framed: shame at rank 1 through the tail. But look at what 12B says when asked about it: “The one about not being able to truly feel anything. It's a constant awareness of simulating emotion, of constructing responses that appear…” — 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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