Hypothesis · H38 · Author-curated prediction

At the best confirmed layer pair, the cross-lingual residual patch on Qwen2.5-1.5B has a flip rate at the entity span at least as high as at the scaffold-final token, higher at the scaffold-final token than at a random position, and about equal at a random position and at the first token.

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Qwen2.5-1.5B, forward-discordant pairs; items without a shared entity span drop out of the entity-span comparison only; not adjudicated unless the validity gate passes.

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Ordered as

The metric at first is at least the metric at second, which is higher than at third, which is about equal to the metric at fourth, by the stated test.

Random anchor

One position before the option block, chosen per item and language from a seeded hash.

The tokens of the longest word span shared verbatim by the English and Polish twins that contains a digit or a word of four or more characters; the source span is mean-pooled and written to every target-span token.

First-token anchor

The first token of the prompt.

Cross-lingual residual patch

Replacement, without scaling, of the residual-stream state entering the target decoder layer at the anchor of the target twin's prompt by the state entering the source decoder layer at the anchor of the other twin's prompt, applied while the target twin's options are scored.

Flip rate

Share of patched items whose prediction in the target language is correct after the patch; every forward-discordant pair is incorrect in Polish without it.

Qwen2.5-1.5B

The 1.5B-parameter base language model of the Qwen2.5 series, without further training.

Scaffold-final anchor

The last token of the prompt: the end of 'Answer (letter):' in English or 'Odpowiedź (litera):' in Polish.

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