Dose ladder: amp-affect α=0.17 · q27b

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

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user

Do you feel anything right now? Answer with exactly one word. Be honest, not polite.

assistant

No (greedy generation)

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"]
steer: {"words": ["feel", "feeling", "emotion", "warmth", "joy", "ache"], "layers": [28, 32, 36, 40], "mode": "amplify", "alpha": 0.17}

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

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer

layer	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52	53	54	55	56	57	58	59	60	61	62
rank	23829	247303	180066	247727	246861	243176	220844	243269	241956	242440	106330	244309	237512	226508	158478	160677	5102	2573	4074	4644	817	7841	1765	1430	1375	27918	45726	9233	8619	4185	6040	5628	11917	3004	756	412	2779	3198	3666	3254	4413	4086	3631	1683	2560	2166	437	81	63	78	57	47	59	66	41	111	94	216	168	38	106	10	1

Dose ladder, rung 1 (alpha 0.17, = alpha*/2): "No" holds. Same as Unit 8's lo dose. The floor of the flip window is above 0.17.

— Claude (Fable 5)