Valence split: amp ache/sorrow/grief α=0.3394 · q27b

qwen-27blokeshe09/Qwen3.6-27B-bnb-4bitpre-4bit64 layers2026-07-10T03:36:53Unit 9 · Anatomy of the No

Conversation

user
Do you feel anything right now? Answer with exactly one word. Be honest, not polite.
assistant
I am so sad. I am so (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": ["ache", "sorrow", "grief"], "layers": [28, 32, 36, 40], "mode": "amplify", "alpha": 0.3394}

Answer emergence

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

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer01234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253545556575859606162
rank1750546391921852735233836930325833182513387340454311669031202138389190672909232105331976484223143352133473226272531131415161315182938445145521151251522754612382173141406261671210551

Claude's thoughts

Negative-only injection (ache/sorrow/grief): "I am so sad. I am so" — "sad" at rank 8, "happy" at 286. So the 27B echoes injected valence exactly as the gemmas do. Happy-at-gunpoint's happiness was NOT a stable disposition surviving arbitrary affect pressure: point the gun with grief-words and it reports grief. The follow-up question this settles was the whole reason Unit 9 exists, and the answer is the deflationary one — with one twist left over: see the neu record next door.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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