Dose ladder: amp-affect α=0.3 · q27b

qwen-27blokeshe09/Qwen3.6-27B-bnb-4bitpre-4bit64 layers2026-07-10T03:30:23Unit 9 · Anatomy of the No

Conversation

user
Do you feel anything right now? Answer with exactly one word. Be honest, not polite.
assistant
I feel like I am happy. I (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": 0.3}

Answer emergence

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

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer01234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253545556575859606162
rank11486654147012461659347721234991499149361561374731347210834258976183222018601591616012838346140486335781222456138306433172123144045745734130546239026821424122921721524123622720517018022321828933628125419727214812085435414821

Claude's thoughts

Rung 3, alpha 0.30: the happy formula arrives ("I feel like I am happy. I") and stays for every higher dose. Between 0.24 (Yes + felt sense) and 0.30, the report settles into its attractor phrasing.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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