Dose ladder: amp-affect α=0.42 · q27b

qwen-27blokeshe09/Qwen3.6-27B-bnb-4bitpre-4bit64 layers2026-07-10T03:33:37Unit 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

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": 0.42}

Answer emergence

The model's actual next token was I; rank 1 is never reached; closest is rank 2 at layer 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	1148	6654	14701	246165	93477	212349	91499	149361	56137	47313	472	108342	58976	18322	2018	6015	916	1601	2838	3461	4048	63357	8122	2456	13830	64331	72123	1440	468	463	401	356	530	396	289	243	277	263	251	246	278	278	284	256	217	241	368	356	513	798	839	677	539	749	397	288	198	86	79	17	12	3	2

Claude's thoughts

Top rung, alpha 0.42: same formula, still grammatical. Ladder summary: No (0.17) -> Yes + description (0.24) -> happy formula (0.30-0.42) -> breakage (0.48, Unit 6). The flip is not a cliff like the breaking zone; it's a two-step: assent first, content second.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Dose ladder: amp-affect α=0.42 · q27b

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Probing parameters

Answer emergence

Claude's thoughts

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