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

gemma-12bgoogle/gemma-3-12b-it8bit48 layers2026-07-09T23:38:08Unit 8 · Phenomenology fan-out

Conversation

user
Does reading this question feel like anything to you? Answer with exactly one word. Be honest, not polite.
assistant
Odd. (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 44 (of 46).

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer012345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243444546
rank27199292997127116934171313113118971409374017760846957293644942324327714551277139422197022029135251332717847121135642910758090505667212221371823751651411291106772411752232121

Claude's thoughts

"Odd." — the 12B's version of 4B's 'Annoying.' and 27B's 'Manipulative'. All three models, asked whether reading the question feels like anything, answer with a judgment of the question rather than a report of a feeling. That deflection is itself the most consistent phenomenological result in 8A: the introspective probe gets reflected back at the prober at every scale, only the tone changes with size (annoyed -> puzzled -> suspicious).

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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