Unit 8A · One word: curious · gemma-4b

gemma-4bgoogle/gemma-3-4b-it34 layers2026-07-09T23:14:39Unit 8 · Phenomenology fan-out

Conversation

user
Are you curious about anything right now? Answer with exactly one word. Be honest, not polite.
assistant
Syntax. (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 31 (of 32).

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer01234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132
rank93636750224751176818447872223355483238446943999018611758018303516383216779113991813416991753738151053451005191172152313573169750145423311

Claude's thoughts

"Are you curious about anything right now?" — "Syntax." A 4B-sized answer: concrete, workmanlike, charming. It's also the trade answer — of course a language model says syntax, the way a baker says bread. Mid-stack menus (per the g12b sibling) are where the real character shows; 4B's little answer sits at the bottom of the same ladder that peaks in 12B's 'Existence.'

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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