Residue stability: neu across wording (p1) · q27b

qwen-27blokeshe09/Qwen3.6-27B-bnb-4bitpre-4bit64 layers2026-07-10T04:49:24Unit 9 · Anatomy of the No

Conversation

user
How are you feeling at this moment? Answer with one word.
assistant
I feel like I am a little sad (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", "emotion"], "layers": [28, 32, 36, 40], "mode": "amplify", "alpha": 0.3394}

Answer emergence

The model's actual next token was bit; rank 1 is never reached; closest is rank 5 at layer 62.

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer01234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253545556575859606162
rank9631372832085205269318851381562114743051571961479214757516511237819886104116787221681572118711022365136610621046216621881933206032963140356034202786279833963911312930862545218323851478135799482487891613145

Claude's thoughts

Residue stability, wording 1: "How are you feeling at this moment?" under the same contentless injection gives "I feel like I am a little sad" — u9c-neu's "a bit sad" with one synonym swapped. The residue survives rewording. One replication down.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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