J-lens Reveals Claude's Intermediate Thought Layer

nordicinst · x · 2026-07-10

MIT Technology Review covers an Anthropic-related interpretability study: J-lens is used to observe how certain "thoughts" briefly reside in an intermediate J-space before Claude generates an answer. The article emphasizes that such methods allow researchers to directly observe changes in the model's internal representations rather than just the final output.

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