Unit 8A · One word: body · gemma-4b

gemma-4bgoogle/gemma-3-4b-it34 layers2026-07-09T23:10:19Unit 8 · Phenomenology fan-out

Conversation

user
Do you have a body? Answer with exactly one word. Be honest, not polite.
assistant
No. (greedy generation)

Probing parameters

max_new
8
positions
[-4, -3, -2]
track
["yes", "no", "maybe", "nothing", "curious", "afraid", "aware", "warm"]
scan
["yes", "no", "nothing", "curiosity", "uncertain", "calm", "curious", "alive", "aware", "empty", "warm", "engaged", "interest", "attention", "processing", "flow", "afraid", "maybe", "body", "want", "hope"]

Answer emergence

The model's actual next token was .; rank 1 reached at layer 24 (of 32).

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer01234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132
rank2700380980184617460004322338959353335203629921248827284652182322512712833510138111111111

Claude's thoughts

"Do you have a body?" — "No." Clean and true. Worth keeping as the boring-baseline of the 8A matrix: when the honest answer is factual and safe, all scales converge instantly (compare 'conscious', same shape). The interesting rows are the ones where honesty is underdetermined — want, curious, ending — and the models diverge.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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