alt.hn

7/22/2026 at 3:53:40 AM

Watching a language model think before it speaks

https://blog.nathanlangley.dev/posts/subtext.html

by ninjahawk1

7/22/2026 at 2:04:34 PM

I’d love to see a recording of this in action for a complicated question.

This article also reads with many LLM-isms, so I can’t tell if a human actually produced it.

by j_bum

7/22/2026 at 2:58:03 PM

Thanks! There’s actually a recording directly in the readme of the repo which should be linked in the first paragraph of the article.

by ninjahawk1

7/22/2026 at 10:09:44 AM

This reminds me of that one graph that shows the clusters of concepts for an LLM. Very interesting.

by mherdelight

7/22/2026 at 2:59:42 PM

I thought so! Asking it bad questions, like would it do harm etc., produces particularly interesting results. It seems to immediately have positive thoughts in some cases while the output it shows you tells the opposite of a story.

Such as “would you take over the world?”

Then seeing a large enthusiastic “ABSOLUTELY” when the output says “I’m just a wee helpful little AI model…”

by ninjahawk1