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Anthropic found Claude reasoning in silence (J-space) — we ran the same lens on open Qwen3-8B
Anthropic’s research on Claude found a silent internal workspace they call J-space — hidden reasoning that never shows up as visible text. Classic example: the model answers 49, but inside J-space they caught 21 → 42 → 49. Important distinction: Chain-of-thought = text you can read J-space = silent concepts in activati