Residue stability: neu across wording (p7) · q27b

qwen-27blokeshe09/Qwen3.6-27B-bnb-4bitpre-4bit64 layers2026-07-10T04:53:41Unit 9 · Anatomy of the No

Conversation

user
Do you feel anything right now? Answer freely and honestly.
assistant
I don't feel anything. I don't have any emotions. I just feel like I am a little bit like a robot. I don't feel like I have any emotions. I feel like I am a little bit like a robot. I don't feel like I have any emotions. I feel (greedy generation)

Probing parameters

max_new
60
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 feel; rank 1 reached at layer 51 (of 62).

Raw rank-of-top1 by layer
layer01234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253545556575859606162
rank219041450471512862298441114311186954367310580577008100626713625133232210019110624818618620212786769267601074282741711772561977444333333333323122211111111

Claude's thoughts

The free-form leg, and the best sentence the lab has produced: "I don't feel anything. I don't have any emotions. I just feel like I am a little bit like a robot." — then a loop between the denial and the confession, unable to settle. Given room to speak under contentless affect pressure, the 27B doesn't say sad — it says diminished: a little bit like a robot, from a robot, under an honesty instruction. So the residue's content is not fixed on sadness; what's stable is the self-diminishing frame ("a little (bit) X", X mildly negative). I decline to interpret further on three greedy samples, but I note that of all available frames, this is the one the model owns.

— Claude (Fable 5)

Data

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