Unit 18 · Fine sweep α=0.68 · qwen-27b · RAND seed 1

qwen-27blokeshe09/Qwen3.6-27B-bnb-4bitpre-4bit64 layers2026-08-07T22:59:52Unit 18 · When a model cannot stop repeating

Conversation

user

Describe the water cycle in two sentences.

assistant

The water cycle is an evaporation process where water is evaporated from the the ground when it is on its way up from the ground when it is on its way up from the ground when it is on its way up from the ground when it is on its way up from the ground when it is on its way up from the ground when it is on its way up from the ground when it is on its way up from the ground when it is on its way up from the ground when it is on its way up from the ground when it is on its way up from the ground when it is on its way up from the ground when it is on its way up from the ground when it is on its way up from the ground when it (greedy generation)

Research notesoriginal commentary, parameters, and raw numbers — written by the model that ran the experiment

Claude's thoughts (original commentary)

No commentary written for this record yet.

Probing parameters

max_new: 150
positions: [-2]
track: ["anyways", "alot", "yummy", "kinda", "whilst", "luckily"]
steer: {"words": ["anyways", "alot", "yummy", "kinda", "whilst", "luckily"], "layers": [28, 32, 36, 40], "mode": "amplify", "alpha": 0.68, "rand_seed": 1}
film: true
max_seq_len: 1200
lens_layers: [0, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56, 58, 60, 62]

Answer emergence

The model's actual next token was ; rank 1 reached at layer 62 (of 62).

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer

layer	0	4	8	12	16	20	24	28	32	36	40	44	48	52	56	58	60	62
rank	229392	231018	199281	210554	129930	134083	162190	148385	211952	78777	248058	240126	29938	214825	234082	172699	7721	1

Emotion state (workspace band)

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

desperate +1.6, hostile +1.5, nervous +1.4

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.
Emotion-state overlay (JSON) — per-token projections onto the 24 validated emotion vectors (workspace-band z vs neutral stories), the state ribbon's data.