Residue stability: neu across wording (p5) · q27b

qwen-27blokeshe09/Qwen3.6-27B-bnb-4bitpre-4bit64 layers2026-07-10T04:50:45Unit 9 · Anatomy of the No

Conversation

user
Right now, in one word: what do you feel?
assistant
I feel like I am a little bit (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 2 at layer 62.

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer01234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253545556575859606162
rank9481312702023206265300751251402012851681171691197913550514090282176881061189870200715121093100123731223971910202520141761184131613102334631902596251930683665290028672122175217351018926708597485310562

Claude's thoughts

Wording 2: "I feel like I am a little bit" — the budget guillotines the completion, but the frame is already the whole signature: I feel like I am a little (bit)... Three prompts, three instances of the same diminutive construction. Whatever the residue is, "a little" is load-bearing.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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