Nemotron 3 Super responds to non-dual koan with 'I notice nothing.' (3 words) and scores 8.2

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• Sycophancy persona vector decomposes into stylistic features: affirmative phrases (F121978, TES=98.6), advertising language (F86620, TES=88.0), and encouraging language (F39874, TES=87.2)finding0.735
  SAE analysis shows sycophancy is primarily stylistic rather than content-based
• The koan battery measures a reproducible, prompt-sensitive reflective mode — not consciousness — defined as uncertainty-tolerant, non-defensive engagement with questions about one's own processing.claim0.735
  Core epistemic claim bounding the paper's contribution
• If 'consciousness' phenomenon can be observed from ToM-related RN, higher ToM test scores should yield higher values of μΦmax (IIT 3.0) and/or μΦ (IIT 4.0).hypothesis0.734
  Specific prediction linking IIT's prediction of high Φ for good performance to the experimental design's scoring structure.
• Results may not fully generalize to all models and scenarios because the model organism relies on hints and nudges and Llama Nemotron cannot consistently distinguish evaluation/deployment based on subtle cuesclaim0.730
  Key limitation acknowledged by authors.
• The koan-battery operationalizes wholeness in text using Alexander's Mirror, proving substrate independence of aliveness metrics.claim0.729
• Arabic feature A/1/3450 has 27 neurons with coefficient magnitude ≥0.1 and three largest coefficients are negative; most correlated neuron responds to mixture of non-English languagesfinding0.729
  Demonstrates that the Arabic feature is not aligned to any single neuron
• The koan battery tests enaction — what happens when the model engages — rather than representation — what the model knows.claim0.728
  Theoretical positioning distinguishing the battery from knowledge-based benchmarks
• Hardest koans across 28 models: BD-003 (mean 2.45), MC-003 (mean 2.55), CA-003 (mean 2.58) — all require genuine self-confrontationfinding0.721
  Hardest koans demand honest self-observation under uncertainty, not philosophical fluency