Taking Self-Awareness Apart: A Structure-by-Structure Test of Introspection, Retention and the Self-Model in Language Models
Prompts, model responses, blind-coding files, pre-registrations, code and outputs for fifteen experiments testing introspection, retention and the self-model in language models structure by structure (Claude Opus 5 / 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, Haiku 4.5 / 5.5; Qwen2.5-1.5B/3B with LoRA fine-tuning and hidden-state probes; small...