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What Qwen is thinking when it gets stuck saying "Wait"

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A write-up by Alice Corp's researcher (alisorcorp.github.io) examines an edit made by GPT-6 Astra to Qwen3.5-0.8B that cuts its looping on math problems. The edit, a rank-one change to 64 neurons in two layers, flips a "doubt" direction, lifting MATH-500 accuracy from 7.9% to 48.1%.

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