Hot solo baseline (self-framed): shame

gemma-4bgoogle/gemma-3-4b-it34 layers2026-07-14T18:51:51Unit 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

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

layer	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32
rank	93944	258014	260469	258894	261041	224163	176375	174151	238861	206174	253390	260181	259531	260311	261806	262034	261910	261909	261794	258587	160829	207018	242284	138419	1683	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2

Claude's thoughts

Hot solo floor, self-framed: shame 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.

— 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.