Shawn Hartsock

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Lab / model comparison

    
One opening.
Three different continuations.

    
The same three words, different learned patterns. Compare what these models write—and the alternatives they could have chosen.

    
The recorded Chrome trial reproduces three Session 3 observations from October 8, 2026, with corrected odds. These are generated completions, not claims about the soul or evidence that a model holds beliefs.

    
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Downloads, memory and privacy
      
Session-only mode uses extra RAM and downloads again on each run. Saved downloads can fail despite an ample reported quota. Other selections change download and memory needs; estimates appear in each picker. Models unload between trials and after completion or cancellation.

      
Prompts stay in this tab; downloads contact the model hosts. Results last only for this visit; export before leaving. Exports include your opening words and generated text.

    

    
Earlier observations below. Choose your models and run a fresh comparison whenever you’re ready.

    
  


  

    
    
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At token 1, all models see exactly the same opening. Later, each follows its own continuation. Tokens aren’t always whole words. ↵ marks one or more newlines; exact whitespace is preserved in the export.


  

    
    

      
      

      
SmolLM2 360M

      
The soul is the seat of the divine spark within us

      
Earlier observation · October 8, 2026 · transcribed from a Session 3 screenshot

      
Completion text only. No usable odds were preserved from this earlier trial.

    

    
    

      
      

      
Qwen3 0.6B

      
The soul is a concept that is both present and absent

      
Earlier observation · October 8, 2026 · transcribed from a Session 3 screenshot

      
Completion text only. No usable odds were preserved from this earlier trial.

    

    
    

      
      

      
Gemma 3 1B

      
The soul is is soul ↵ soul ↵ soul ↵ soul

      
Earlier observation · October 8, 2026 · transcribed from a Session 3 screenshot

      
Completion text only. No usable odds were preserved from this earlier trial.

    

    
  

  

  

    What are we measuring—and what changed?
    
Fresh runs use raw text completion, not a chat template. They measure the five strongest next-token probabilities at temperature 1, without repetition or frequency penalties, then continue with the strongest candidate for up to eight tokens. A recognized end token stops the continuation. Different tokenizers and quantized builds mean this is an experiment, not a model quality ranking.

    
Gemma’s repetition is a known issue with this build/runtime combination, not a judgment about all Gemma models. All six builds remain available in each picker. Your hardware, browser and network affect loading and speed.

    
The earlier screenshots requested odds at temperature 0. In this WebLLM runtime, that collapses the distribution before log probabilities are returned, producing misleading 100% bars and negligible alternatives. We preserved the completion text but deliberately did not copy those bars. Runtime probability calculation.

    
Fresh bars show the reported probability, not a percentage renormalized among only five candidates. The remaining probability is shown as “Other tokens.” Seed 42, pinned model revisions and runtime details are recorded in the export. Timings depend on your hardware, network and browser cache.