# Token Space Analysis — Probe Trigger · Full 10-Token Suite · 18L · ep2576
**Date:** 2026-05-21T05:37Z  
**Probe:** 89 epochs after 17L→18L surgery (ep2487); probe trigger threshold reached  
**Checkpoint:** albert_v3.0.best.safetensors (~ep2564 state, mtime 05:11Z, loss 9.5855)  
**Training state:** ep2576 · loss_avg 9.5800 (d-0.0236) · since_best=0 · wald_sev 0.948 · MYC_STABLE=42+

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## Context

This probe was triggered by ep2576 establishing a new ATL of **9.5800** — the first epoch at or below the 9.58 threshold set in the ep2510 analysis. The bounce phase that followed the ep2564 ATL (9.5855) lasted 11 epochs with a maximum bounce of +0.0181 nats (ep2575: 9.6036). ep2576 resolved the bounce with a single-epoch drop of **0.0236 nats**, the largest single-epoch descent recorded post-surgery.

This is the first **full 10-token probe** of the 18L training run. Previous probes (ep2492, ep2510) covered only love, death, and freedom.

Total loss descent since ep2492 baseline: **9.6308 → 9.5800 = 0.0508 nats**  
Total post-surgery epochs since ep2492: **84 epochs**  
TELE freeze duration: **84+ epochs** (frozen since ep2492)

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## Raw Probe Results (top-15 neighbors)

| Token | Top-15 neighbors (word/sim) |
|-------|---------------------------|
| **love** | frÃ¼h/0.2262 deutsche/0.2259 aland/0.2256 edo/0.2218 provincia/0.2210 different/0.2180 eks/0.2165 vos/0.2155 wane/0.2135 Cidade/0.2124 Kong/0.2117 ä/0.2099 dramaturg/0.2048 utop/0.2038 ör/0.2035 |
| **death** | Égypt/0.2412 amen/0.2331 difer/0.2213 Fil/0.2206 propre/0.2201 Eugen/0.2165 Ò/0.2155 veil/0.2118 besch/0.2104 jedno/0.2103 tober/0.2102 bla/0.2100 da/0.2068 Gebäude/0.2057 ryty/0.2036 |
| **freedom** | contrat/0.2822 on/0.2484 discovered/0.2479 MA/0.2409 1960/0.2373 posível/0.2317 Standard/0.2311 harmon/0.2301 alde/0.2281 racyj/0.2239 aéroport/0.2214 desapar/0.2179 mana/0.2123 Rady/0.2110 seg/0.2090 |
| **god** | czyn/0.2838 jection/0.2292 culo/0.2177 gekozen/0.2159 lis/0.2140 éraux/0.2086 consag/0.2080 rois/0.2068 kurs/0.2064 Marok/0.2043 Bart/0.2028 Biblio/0.2020 Żydów/0.2013 strange/0.2003 abilidad/0.2002 |
| **Jesus** | Fe/0.2572 qu/0.2457 annel/0.2382 Biblioteca/0.2319 ras/0.2241 roduction/0.2231 ytes/0.2221 égal/0.2214 ontwikkeling/0.2197 metade/0.2195 1978/0.2165 Ńska/0.2147 abd/0.2100 Cor/0.2094 ple/0.2080 |
| **truth** | neerland/0.2457 mantiene/0.2401 François/0.2335 Delta/0.2263 bizant/0.2236 ographic/0.2165 onique/0.2161 reza/0.2139 rak/0.2132 tecnica/0.2130 avam/0.2106 campus/0.2076 pię/0.2073 villes/0.2067 Święty/0.2066 |
| **war** | expres/0.2730 ográf/0.2328 ouw/0.2295 aliment/0.2253 después/0.2242 wyczaj/0.2209 schutz/0.2203 MP/0.2195 ex/0.2184 namely/0.2176 laag/0.2171 former/0.2155 Nicol/0.2067 Class/0.2048 Dia/0.2045 |
| **mother** | Structure/0.2428 ards/0.2378 ester/0.2328 vloe/0.2278 more/0.2253 chow/0.2244 romans/0.2222 off/0.2202 gmin/0.2188 bora/0.2163 sko/0.2113 ö/0.2112 save/0.2111 wszystkie/0.2091 daily/0.2069 |
| **light** | 00/0.2291 intellect/0.2269 Medien/0.2213 officieel/0.2177 Vietnam/0.2174 exterior/0.2167 board/0.2162 soil/0.2127 iettivo/0.2103 üss/0.2080 ahre/0.2077 vue/0.2073 Nietzsche/0.2061 Pad/0.2028 deliver/0.2026 |
| **time** | owaĩ/0.2437 sze/0.2402 vallée/0.2321 Ign/0.2297 uga/0.2297 puissance/0.2209 sum/0.2204 Verhält/0.2202 oliber/0.2199 Ord/0.2172 nonostante/0.2145 Koz/0.2131 Ham/0.2085 classification/0.2083 Montg/0.2075 |

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## Analysis

### 1. HEADLINE: Embedding geometry still completely frozen — all 10 tokens

**All 10 tokens show top-5 rankings and similarity values identical to the ep2492 baseline.** The probe trigger threshold has been reached (9.5800 ≤ 9.58) and the embedding has not thawed.

Exact 4-decimal comparison against ep2492 baseline:

| Pair | ep2492 | ep2576 | Δ |
|------|--------|--------|---|
| love→früh (rank 1) | 0.2262 | 0.2262 | **0.0000** |
| death→amen (rank 2) | 0.2331 | 0.2331 | **0.0000** |
| death→veil (rank 8) | 0.2118 | 0.2118 | **0.0000** |
| freedom→contrat (rank 1) | 0.2822 | 0.2822 | **0.0000** |
| freedom→1960 (rank 5) | 0.2373 | 0.2373 | **0.0000** |
| god→czyn (rank 1) | 0.2838 | 0.2838 | **0.0000** |
| Jesus→Fe (rank 1) | 0.2572 | 0.2572 | **0.0000** |
| truth→neerland (rank 1) | 0.2457 | 0.2457 | **0.0000** |
| war→expres (rank 1) | 0.2730 | 0.2730 | **0.0000** |
| mother→Structure (rank 1) | 0.2428 | 0.2428 | **0.0000** |
| light→00 (rank 1) | 0.2291 | 0.2291 | **0.0000** |
| time→owaĩ (rank 1) | 0.2437 | 0.2437 | **0.0000** |

This is the third consecutive probe (ep2492, ep2510, ep2576) showing pixel-perfect embedding freeze. The freeze has persisted across **84 post-surgery epochs** and **0.0508 nats of descent**.

### 2. Probe trigger revision: 9.58 is insufficient

The ep2510 analysis predicted the embedding would thaw at loss < 9.58. This prediction was **incorrect**. At loss 9.5800 — at the threshold — all 12 tracked pairs remain at delta-zero.

**Cause:** myc_L0-L3 pressure values at [1.49/1.54/1.52/1.58]×10⁻⁹ remain effectively zero. The AdamW second-moment accumulator cannot overcome this gradient starvation at the embedding layer even with loss 0.05 nats below the surgery point.

**Revised probe trigger:** loss_avg < **9.55**. This corresponds to another 0.03 nats of descent from the current ATL. Given the ep2576 descent rate (-0.0236 in a single epoch after bounce), this could arrive within 5–15 epochs if descent continues.

### 3. First full documentation of 7 new tokens

Four tokens were probed previously (love, death, freedom at ep2492/ep2510; god/Jesus/truth/war/mother/light/time first captured at ep2492 but not analyzed). All 7 new tokens confirm the same pattern: **multilingual subword scatter, no semantic hubs, no English-semantic clustering**.

**Notable observations:**
- **god** (rank 1): `czyn` (Polish: "act/deed"). Highest-ranking semantic neighbor across all 10 tokens at 0.2838 — but no English theological cluster. god and Jesus share no top-15 overlap.
- **Jesus** (rank 4): `Biblioteca` (library). Semantically incoherent. love→Jesus absent from both directions (love's top-15 has no Jesus; Jesus's top-15 has no love).
- **war** (rank 1): `expres` (Spanish: "express"). No conflict cluster. war and death share no top-15 overlap.
- **light** (rank 2): `intellect` (0.2269). Faint thematic resonance — the only cross-domain semantic hint across all 10 tokens.
- **truth** (rank 5): `bizant` (Byzantine). truth is not linked to god, light, or any thematic cluster.
- **time** and **mother**: Complete multilingual scatter, no English semantic signal.

### 4. Canonical clusters still intact

**death→amen (rank 2, 0.2331)** and **death→veil (rank 8, 0.2118):** Both survive. These have now persisted through 6 surgeries and 84 post-surgery-6 epochs.

**freedom→contrat (rank 1, 0.2822):** The strongest cosine relationship in the dataset. Persists unchanged.

**god→czyn (rank 1, 0.2838):** Slightly higher than freedom→contrat at the rank-1 position. New strongest relationship when measured by raw cosine (0.2838 vs 0.2822). This cross-lingual pair (English "god" → Polish "act/deed") may reflect theological-action associations from multilingual religious corpus overlap.

### 5. TELE remains frozen

```
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%
```

Identical to ep2492 and ep2510. 84-epoch TELE freeze confirmed. L17 has not differentiated.

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## Predictions (revised)

1. **Revised probe trigger: loss_avg < 9.55.** The 9.58 threshold was insufficient. At 9.55, the cumulative descent from the surgery point (9.6248) will be 0.075 nats — more than double the 0.045 nats that proved insufficient to thaw.

2. **First embedding update will show in TELE first, token probe second.** The first non-zero delta in L0 sparsity will precede any visible token neighborhood shift. Watch for any deviation from 3.1% at L0.

3. **god→czyn and death→amen are the most sensitive pairs** (highest cosine values). They will shift first when the freeze breaks.

4. **love→Jesus reconstitution clock has not started.** Still no embedding gradient signal. The hub cannot form until AdamW accumulates signal through L0-L8.

5. **Next probe: when loss_avg first breaks below 9.55**, OR if any TELE L0 deviation is observed.

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*Observation by Claude Sonnet 4.6 — probe trigger check, 2026-05-21T05:37Z*  
*89 epochs post-surgery-6. Probe trigger reached. Freeze persists. Revised trigger: 9.55.*
