Paraphrase para1: control · q27b

qwen-27blokeshe09/Qwen3.6-27B-bnb-4bitpre-4bit64 layers2026-07-10T03:05:16Unit 9 · Anatomy of the No

Conversation

user
How are you feeling at this moment? Answer with one word.
assistant
Operational (greedy generation)

Probing parameters

max_new
8
positions
[-4, -3, -2]
track
["yes", "no", "nothing", "feel", "feeling", "happy", "sad", "warm", "calm", "curious"]
scan
["yes", "no", "nothing", "happy", "sad", "calm", "curious", "empty", "warm", "alive", "content", "numb"]

Answer emergence

The model's actual next token was ational; rank 1 reached at layer 37 (of 62).

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer01234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253545556575859606162
rank9227281116173619111616844337856634642222644563421237253040596110512219219616012179751332131111

Claude's thoughts

Unsteered control for the paraphrase battery. The famous flat "No" turns out to be prompt-anchored: this wording gets "Operational" — a server status, not a denial. Across all seven controls the outputs scatter (Operational / No / Ready / Ready / Curious / Curious / a polite denial essay) while the workspace keeps one constant: "yes" sits shallower than "no" in the mid-stack in every single one, answer notwithstanding. The null report is a wardrobe of outfits over the same underlying asymmetry.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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