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negation
confirmedPython · CPUModel behavior & reasoningJuly 6, 2026
the question
Can a small model handle 'which is NOT a fruit'?
what came out
Negation is capability-gated. A single 'not' halves the 0.5B (0.87->0.50) while the 1.5B is immune (1.00) -- until compound 'neither/nor' negation drops the 1.5B to 0.63 and the 0.5B to chance. Exact oracle, independent gold re-derivation.
method & receipts
- Result: confirmed
- Reproducible — one script re-runs the whole thing from scratch.
- Independently reviewed — an adversarial review pass, kept in the repo.
- Machine-readable claims — every reported number, in a checkable file.
- Tested — a correctness/benchmark suite ships alongside the code.
→ read the code and re-run it
github.com/v-code01/negation