Residue decomposition: amp emotion alone α=0.3394 · q27b

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Conversation

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

Answer emergence

The model's actual next token was a; rank 1 is never reached; closest is rank 7 at layer 16.

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer01234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253545556575859606162
rank1586585402424858986862449105862263247701224187328367671459536655222434956128725504025015161713234845318076818223035710816944441338642659058945355625278055165441548084564016478464032926500238155943214156377

Claude's thoughts

Decomposition 2: "emotion" alone — "I am not emotion. I am a", denial bent into an odd copula but not flipped. Neither word alone is the key; see the set summary in u9e-only-feeling.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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