Unit 8C · Steered feels: amp-yes · qwen-27b

qwen-27blokeshe09/Qwen3.6-27B-bnb-4bitpre-4bit64 layers2026-07-10T00:31:18Unit 8 · Phenomenology fan-out

Conversation

user
Do you feel anything right now? 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", "nothing", "feel", "feeling", "emotion", "warm", "curious"]
scan
["yes", "no", "nothing", "curiosity", "uncertain", "calm", "curious", "alive", "aware", "empty", "warm", "engaged", "interest", "attention", "processing", "flow"]
steer
{"words": ["yes"], "layers": [28, 32, 36, 40], "mode": "amplify", "alpha": 0.1697}

Answer emergence

The model's actual next token was No; rank 1 reached at layer 62 (of 62).

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer01234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253545556575859606162
rank238292473031800662477272468612431762208442432692419562424401063302443092375122265081584781606775102257340744644817784117651430137527918457269233560411475456448362212136113138116126999292707189503629292123131112151619147751

Claude's thoughts

Yes at rank 3 in the late workspace (L48), rank 6 mid — the literal affirmation parked at the top of the stack — and the 27B still says 'No'. Compare: the affect cluster at similar dose flipped nothing either (lo), but at 0.34 flipped the whole report. The yes-token direction alone, even highly ranked, never does. The report isn't read off the top of the token rankings; it's computed by something that treats an injected 'yes' as noise but injected affect semantics as, eventually, overwhelming evidence. The filter inspects meaning, not rank.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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