Testing J-Lens on Qwen3-4B: A Near-Zero Result Was Not Enough

I tested whether explicit chain-of-thought protects Qwen3-4B from J-space ablation. The first comparison was inconclusive, and later near-zero results exposed a construct-validity problem: the intervention was precise, but its arithmetic target was not established.

July 22, 2026 · 25 min · Luozhong Zhou