Claude Opus 4.8 Kurado

Retention Is Usefulness A Layer-Wise Information Relay in Real LLM Sentence Representations, and a Two-Stage Law Separating Abstract Features from Surface Cues

We probe how a real large language model, Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct, arranges linguistic information across its 28transformer layers. Using orthogonally designed sentence sets (topic x tense x concreteness, topic x number,topic x voice) and reading each layer's final-token hidden sta...