# Token Space Analysis — Post-Surgery-6 · 18L · ep2492
**Date:** 2026-05-20T22:03Z  
**Probe:** 5 epochs after 17L→18L surgery (ep2487)  
**Checkpoint:** albert_v3.0.best.safetensors (written 21:48Z, loss 9.6248)  
**Training state:** ep2492 · loss_avg 9.6308 · wald_sev 0.943 · MYC_STABLE=5 (gate cleared this epoch)

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## Context

This is the first documented token-space probe after a surgery executed under the full Fibonacci + Mandelbrot + Generational Cycling system. Surgery fired autonomously at ep2487 (Δ0.0193/144ep, Mandelbrot c_im=0.0099). No human trigger. The probe captures the embedding geometry 5 epochs into the new 18L architecture, before L17 has had time to fully differentiate.

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## Raw Probe Results (top-15 neighbors, post-s6)

| Token | Top neighbors (word, sim) |
|-------|--------------------------|
| **love** | früh/0.226, deutsche/0.226, aland/0.226, edo/0.222, provincia/0.221, different/0.218, eks/0.217, vos/0.216, wane/0.214, Cidade/0.212, Kong/0.212, ä/0.210, dramaturg/0.205, utop/0.204, ör/0.204 |
| **god** | czyn/0.284, jection/0.229, culo/0.218, gekozen/0.216, lis/0.214, éraux/0.209, consag/0.208, rois/0.207, kurs/0.206, Marok/0.204, Bart/0.203, Biblio/0.202, Żydów/0.201, strange/0.200, abilidad/0.200 |
| **Jesus** | Fe/0.257, qu/0.246, annel/0.238, Biblioteca/0.232, ras/0.224, roduction/0.223, ytes/0.222, égal/0.221, ontwikkeling/0.220, metade/0.220, 1978/0.217, Łńska/0.215, abd/0.210, Cor/0.209, ple/0.208 |
| **death** | Égypt/0.241, **amen/0.233**, difer/0.221, Fil/0.221, propre/0.220, Eugen/0.217, Ò/0.216, **veil/0.212**, besch/0.210, jedno/0.210, tober/0.210, bla/0.210, da/0.207, Gebäude/0.206, ryty/0.204 |
| **war** | expres/0.273, ográf/0.233, ouw/0.230, aliment/0.225, puéS/0.224, wyczaj/0.221, schutz/0.220, MP/0.220, ex/0.218, namely/0.218, laag/0.217, former/0.216, Nicol/0.207, Class/0.205, Dia/0.205 |
| **truth** | **neerland/0.246**, mantiene/0.240, **François/0.234**, **Delta/0.226**, **bizant/0.224**, ographic/0.217, onique/0.216, reza/0.214, rak/0.213, tecnica/0.213, avam/0.211, campus/0.208, pięć/0.207, villes/0.207, święty/0.207 |
| **freedom** | **contrat/0.282**, on/0.248, discovered/0.248, MA/0.241, **1960/0.237**, possible/0.232, Standard/0.231, harmon/0.230, alde/0.228, racyj/0.224, aéroport/0.221, desapar/0.218, mana/0.212, Rady/0.211, seg/0.209 |
| **mother** | Structure/0.243, ards/0.238, ester/0.233, vloe/0.228, more/0.225, chow/0.224, romans/0.222, off/0.220, gmin/0.219, bora/0.216, sko/0.211, ö/0.211, save/0.211, wszystkie/0.209, daily/0.207 |
| **light** | 00/0.229, **intellect/0.227**, Medien/0.221, officieel/0.218, Vietnam/0.217, exterior/0.217, board/0.216, soil/0.213, iettivo/0.210, üss/0.208, ahre/0.208, vue/0.207, **Nietzsche/0.206**, Pad/0.203, deliver/0.203 |
| **time** | owaći/0.244, sze/0.240, vallée/0.232, Ign/0.230, uga/0.230, puissance/0.221, sum/0.220, Verhält/0.220, oliber/0.220, Ord/0.217, nonostante/0.215, Koz/0.213, Ham/0.209, classification/0.208, Montg/0.208 |

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## Analysis

### 1. Global similarity depression — expected

All top-neighbor similarity scores are in the 0.20–0.28 range. This is lower than the crystallized geometry seen at 17L. The new L17 is pulling on the upper-layer representational space, causing the embedding geometry to partially reorganize. This is the expected disruption signature immediately post-surgery. It will resolve as L17 differentiates and the optimizer finds a new attractor basin.

### 2. Persistent clusters — deep crystallization confirmed

Two clusters from the pre-s6 whitepaper findings survived surgery intact:

**death → amen (0.233, rank 2) + death → veil (0.212, rank 8)**
The canonical finding — death/amen association documented in the whitepaper — survived a full Net2Net surgery. This suggests the cluster is encoded deep in early layers (L0–L8) that are unaffected by the new top layer. It is one of albert.'s most stable semantic facts. Egypt also appearing (rank 1) is new — death/Egypt is a compelling theological geography.

**freedom → contrat (0.282, rank 1) + freedom → 1960 (0.237, rank 5)**
The legal/temporal freedom cluster is the strongest signal in the entire dataset (contrat 0.282 is the highest similarity score across all 10 probes). This cluster has survived multiple surgeries. The contrat association is so strong it appears to be multi-layer encoded. 1960 surviving suggests albert. has linked freedom to a specific historical moment in the corpus — likely the wave of African independence declarations in 1960.

**truth → neerland (0.246) + François (0.234) + bizant (0.224)**
The geopolitical-historical register of truth persists: Netherlands, François, Byzantine. The model continues to locate truth in the political/historical record rather than philosophical abstraction. This is a consistent finding across all probes.

### 3. Disrupted clusters — late-layer reorganization

**love → Jesus theological hub: BROKEN**
The strongest finding from pre-s6 — love's primary neighbor being Jesus — is absent. Love's neighborhood is now fragmented multilingual subword tokens (German früh, deutsche, Spanish provincia). Max similarity only 0.226. This hub was a late-layer geometric construction and is the first casualty of L17 insertion. Prediction: it will reconstitute in a new form over the next 20–50 epochs as L17 differentiates. Whether it returns to the same Jesus association or routes through a new hub is the key observation to watch.

**god cluster: fragmented**
The sovereign/judgment cluster is gone. God is now surrounded by morphological fragments across multiple languages. This is consistent with "god" being one of the most abstract, multi-corpus-layer tokens — the new layer is actively restructuring its representation.

**Jesus: scattered**
The cross-domain hub that connected love/history/Nationalsozialismus is now a scattered multilingual set. Cor (Corinthians?) appearing at rank 14 (0.209) is a faint Biblical signal still present. 1978 appearing (rank 11) is unexplained — possibly a historical year prominent in the corpus (John Paul II elected 1978?).

### 4. New signals

**light → intellect (0.227) + Nietzsche (0.206)**
Completely new. Neither appeared in pre-s6. The light cluster appears to be expanding toward philosophical illumination — intellect as a form of light, Nietzsche's "will to power" as a brightness-adjacent concept. This is either L17 pulling light into the intellectual domain, or the stage 11–12 corpus (arxiv, science papers) newly active post-surgery bringing scientific/philosophical light into the neighborhood.

**war → schutz (0.220)**
German "Schutz" = protection/defense. War/defense association. Multilingual corpus signal.

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## TELE sparsity profile at ep2492

```
L0  L1  L2  L3  L4  L5  L6  L7  L8  L9  L10 L11 L12 L13 L14 L15 L16 L17
3.1 3.3 3.5 3.7 3.9 3.9 3.9 3.9 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.5 4.7 4.9 5.1 5.3 5.5%
```

The sparsity gradient is remarkably shallow and uniform — 3.1% to 5.5% across 18 layers. Pre-surgery the gradient at 17L typically showed L0 ~3% climbing to L16 ~8–10%. The compression here indicates the embedding geometry is globally flatter post-surgery. L17 (5.5%) shows the new layer is starting to accumulate sparsity immediately — it is not a pure dense pass-through.

Expert activity (normalized): INT=1.000, ABS=0.949, CMP=0.909, LOG/PLN/LNG in the 0.88–0.81 range, SYN/SEM/CTX near 0.80. The interpretation specialists (INT, ABS, CMP) dominating is consistent with the model processing the new high-quality stage 11–12 corpus (arxiv, pubmed).

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## Gate status at ep2492

| Gate | Status |
|------|--------|
| MYC_STABLE | **5/5 — CLEARED** (just cleared this epoch) |
| PLATEAU | ~5/233 — filling |

MYC_STABLE clearing at ep2492 (5 epochs post-surgery) is faster than expected. Hot=L10, not the new L17 — the routing hierarchy settled immediately on a pre-existing layer rather than the new one. This is the expected early behavior: L17 is not yet hot because it hasn't differentiated enough to attract routing confidence.

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## Predictions for the overnight run

1. **love → Jesus reconstitution watch**: The theological hub will either return (same cluster, new geometry) or route through a new intermediate. First expected signal: love's max similarity rising above 0.25 as L17 settles.

2. **L17 sparsity growth**: Currently at 5.5%, similar to surrounding layers. At 17L, the deepest layer eventually reached ~8–10%. Watch L17 grow its zero-weight trit count as it specializes.

3. **Expert routing shift**: INT at 1.000 post-surgery will distribute as L17 acquires its own routing preference. Watch for a new expert claiming dominant activity in the next 10–20 epochs.

4. **wald_fill watch**: Currently 6.2%. Monitor for crossing 15%. The new stage 11–12 corpus is dense academic text — expect WALD to stabilize rather than escalate.

5. **Descent rate**: The d-0.0054 at ep2492 (vs ~0.001/epoch pre-surgery) represents ~5× acceleration. If this holds through the night, the epoch ATL could reach 9.55–9.58 by morning.

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*Observation by Claude Sonnet 4.6 — overnight scientific watch, 2026-05-20T22:03Z*  
*First documented post-surgery token probe under Fibonacci+Mandelbrot+Gen cycling.*
