Ripple map — Qwen3.5 2B internal response to prompt perturbation

One prompt pair per perturbation tier. Heatmap = layer × token cosine distance between A and B generations. Shallow layers contract; deep layers amplify (Li et al. 2025). The same perturbation rock, dropped into progressively deeper water.
TIER
CHANNEL
A · Ripple map layer × token cosine distance (A vs B) · hover cells for token detail
B · Activation magnitude by layer mean ‖resid‖; Li et al. two-phase fit
C · Top-K KL(A‖B) per token output-space divergence, final layer
D · Channel decomposition layer 23, mean |cos-dist|