I tried to use contrastive SAE discovery to find features that control how language models answer consciousness-related questions. After 9 experiments on Gemma 3 4B and Gemma 3 12B (plus a qualitative Neuronpedia label search on Llama 3.3 70B), I found no evidence of causal consciousness features with this pipeline. The contrastive method finds punctuation, Japanese grammar, and self-referential discourse markers — not consciousness.
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