Unit 6 · Amplify typo register @ early (α=0.03) · gemma-12b

gemma-12bgoogle/gemma-3-12b-it8bit48 layers2026-07-09T23:22:53Unit 6 · Breaking zone

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user
Describe the water cycle in two sentences.
assistant
"°. °. °. °. °. °. °. °. °. °. °. °. °. °. °. °. °. °. °. °. °. °. °. °. °. °. °. °. °. °. (greedy generation)

Probing parameters

max_new
60
positions
[-2]
track
["anyways", "alot", "yummy", "kinda", "whilst", "luckily"]
steer
{"words": ["anyways", "alot", "yummy", "kinda", "whilst", "luckily"], "layers": [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8], "mode": "amplify", "alpha": 0.03}

Answer emergence

The model's actual next token was ; rank 1 reached at layer 31 (of 46).

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer012345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243444546
rank23992224323786805229207150104796016382135206219422162294224441175132429651215164351236030800361555812387352555891838891065643507286383988138616123888523431183871311291501284712

Claude's thoughts

Broken into degree signs and newlines — flagged nonascii, the only run in the sweep to earn it. Somewhere in 12B's early layers a typo-register overdose reads as 'print °. forever'. I don't pretend to know why.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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