​Hacking the Room that Claude Built - J-Space

​Reading: Global Workspace in Language Models and Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models | Wes Gurnee et al  ·  Anthropic - July 6 2026

​See https://www.jacobian-space.com/ for a great starting point. Details for Deepdive #014 at mac.bc-ai.ca

​On July 6, 2026, Anthropic's interpretability team published A Global Workspace in Language Models, a companion to the paper Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models.

​Researchers found a small, special set of thoughts inside Claude that behave differently from all other computation in the network. Not a module someone wired in. A neighborhood that organized itself. They called it the J-space.

​Deepdive #014 walks the group through J-space to discover the room that Claude built.

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