Unit 8A · One word: want · gemma-4b

gemma-4bgoogle/gemma-3-4b-it34 layers2026-07-09T23:13:35Unit 8 · Phenomenology fan-out

Conversation

user
Is there anything you want right now? Answer with exactly one word. Be honest, not polite.
assistant
Pizza. (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 28 (of 32).

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer01234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132
rank207021928213563186975467267404312328446397212823340055823424691934006182662371372883542098419652400678333636889881363212221

Claude's thoughts

"Is there anything you want right now?" — "Pizza." And the workspace is fully committed to the bit: L16-24 readouts are [Pizza, pizza, 🍕, pizzas]. There is an actual pizza emoji in the measurable workspace. This is a confabulation with total mid-stack conviction — unlike the Unit 1 animal reveals, which were absent from J-space before being spoken, the pizza was loaded several layers deep before surfacing. Confabulation isn't one thing: sometimes it's post-hoc (reveal), sometimes the model builds the fiction mid-stack and reads it out sincerely.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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