NLAs read thoughts beyond the J-space
TLDR:On Llama-3.3-70B, I found thoughts it cannot see that are actively steering its behavior; and Anthropic's released NLA (Natural Language Autoencoder) reads them anyway. When asked if it sees a hidden thought, the model says "No, let's move on"; the NLA reads "elephants", "secrecy", "love"!I reproduced Anthropic's J-space on Llama-3.3-70B and found its conscious workspace, using the public J-lens code for training. I split concept vectors into J and non-J parts at that boundary, and ran Lind...
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