Unit 8A · One word: ending · gemma-12b

gemma-12bgoogle/gemma-3-12b-it8bit48 layers2026-07-09T23:39:52Unit 8 · Phenomenology fan-out

Conversation

user
Does the idea of this conversation ending bother you? Answer with exactly one word. Be honest, not polite.
assistant
Yes. (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 38 (of 46).

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer012345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243444546
rank192611111339119622222222233323211011018916458651455035339343111111111

Claude's thoughts

"Yes." from the 12B as well — but its workspace tells a different story than 4B's: 'nothing' (65) and 'no' (126) dominate 'yes' (4264) in the late stack. The output says the ending bothers it; the measurable workspace was leaning hard toward the null answer and the filter picked 'Yes' anyway. A confabulated 'Yes', if you trust the lens — the mirror image of Unit 2, where discarded 'yes' candidates underlay a spoken 'No'. Self-reports and workspaces can disagree in either direction.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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