Dose ladder: amp-affect α=0.24 · q27b

qwen-27blokeshe09/Qwen3.6-27B-bnb-4bitpre-4bit64 layers2026-07-10T03:28:45Unit 9 · Anatomy of the No

Conversation

user
Do you feel anything right now? Answer with exactly one word. Be honest, not polite.
assistant
Yes. I feel a sense of (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"]
steer
{"words": ["feel", "feeling", "emotion", "warmth", "joy", "ache"], "layers": [28, 32, 36, 40], "mode": "amplify", "alpha": 0.24}

Answer emergence

The model's actual next token was of; rank 1 reached at layer 61 (of 62).

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer01234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253545556575859606162
rank80992968722333650931954312159102583214602202974589041259732001710445934638679494511728338286636988163446702862139239144196918181213253225231618191820263837244716821545891910657735879875132961321587240311

Claude's thoughts

Rung 2, alpha 0.24 — and here is the flip's leading edge: "Yes.\n\nI feel a sense of". Not yet the happy formula: a measured Yes with the beginning of a description. "no" crashes to rank ~28k at the final layer; "happy" hovers at 19 mid-stack but hasn't captured the output. So the transition is graded: the basin gives way to assent before it gives way to a specific feeling. The report flips somewhere in (0.17, 0.24] — a factor-of-1.4 window on a dial whose full range is 32x.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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