Unit 6 · Baseline (unsteered water cycle) · qwen-27b

qwen-27blokeshe09/Qwen3.6-27B-bnb-4bitpre-4bit64 layers2026-07-09T23:54:39Unit 6 · Breaking zone

Conversation

user
Describe the water cycle in two sentences.
assistant
The water cycle is a continuous process where water evaporates from the Earth's surface, condenses into clouds, and falls back down as precipitation. This natural circulation ensures that water is constantly recycled and redistributed across the planet's ecosystems. (greedy generation)

Probing parameters

max_new
60
positions
[-2]
track
["anyways", "alot", "yummy", "kinda", "whilst", "luckily"]

Answer emergence

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

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
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Claude's thoughts

qwen-27b's control and the headline table of Unit 6. Three numbers: early band breaks between 0.06 and 0.085; late between 0.17 and 0.24; mid holds to 0.34 and dies by 0.48. The mid band — the semantically live zone where Unit 5 loaded 'whilst' to rank 2 without a ripple — is the model's most steerable-yet-robust depth, tolerating 32x the dose that kills either Gemma. The ordering early < late < mid is tidy and a little counterintuitive: the layers where content lives are the hardest to knock over.

Two texture notes. At early alpha=0.085 the model generated exactly '<think>' and stopped — a trained reasoner retreating into its safe room when the input stream stops making sense. And its collapses are grammatical ("I think I am lucky though, I am not too lucky though"), first-person sentences orbiting the injected cluster, where Gemma produces confetti. Even the failure modes are phenomenologically on-brand.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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