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The flip rate of the residual patch from the Polish twin into the English pass of Qwen2.5-1.5B, on reverse-discordant translation pairs, is at most half the flip rate of the forward patch at the same layer pairs.

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Qwen2.5-1.5B at the confirmed layer pairs; a ratio near 1 would indicate a language-neutral store with two lossy access paths; not adjudicated unless the validity gate passes.

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Reverse flip rate

Flip rate of the patch from the Polish twin into the English pass on the 82 translation pairs that Qwen2.5-1.5B answers correctly in Polish and incorrectly in English (33 Belebele and 49 MMLU).

At most a fraction of

The subject is at most fraction times the comparator.

Scaffold-final anchor

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

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.

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.

Qwen2.5-1.5B

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

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