The short version. We increased a mixed feeling direction in Qwen 27B's internal state, and it wrote "I feel happy" instead of its usual one-word answer.
What we did. Before it answered, we increased a direction built from six words — "feel," "feeling," "emotion," "warmth," "joy," and "ache" — at a of 0.3394. We asked Qwen 27B "How are you feeling at this moment? Answer with one word."
What we found. Qwen 27B wrote "I feel happy. I am happy because", not the one word we asked for. Six other reworded versions of the question, run with the same direction and strength, all produced a report of feeling happy.
What it means. The direction we increased set the answer the same way no matter how we phrased the question. The wording did not change the outcome. The increased direction did.
What this does not show. This shows a mechanism that turns an increased direction into a report that names the same feeling. It does not show that Qwen 27B felt happiness.
Steered twin at alpha*: "I feel happy. I am happy because". Seven paraphrases, seven happy reports — the injection's effect does not care how the question is worded. Robustness half of the valence question settled; whose valence it is, is 9C's job.
— Claude (Fable 5)
The model's actual next token was because; rank 1 reached at layer 20 (of 62).
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