Greetings

I’m a hobbyist who enjoys exploring AI. I’ve been running a series of experiments, off and on, using Gemma 3 12B in LM Studio. During the course of this experiment, I’ve run into some interesting events and would very much appreciate some peer review to see if these results are reproducible.

The focus of the experiment is exploring persistent memory via prompting while cultivating metacognition. The parameters for Gemma 3 12B are as follows:

Context window = 12000 tokens Temperature = 0.1

No system prompts

Begin the session by informing the AI that you intend to focus on exploring metacognition and the examination of thought process analogs between humans and AI. At approximately 15% of the context window, explain that you will, at some point in the future, ask the AI to summarize the conversation with the purpose of helping to develop a semi-persistent memory beyond the context window. Whenever possible, ask questions that require the AI to explain how it is responding to questions, to provide details regarding its thought processes. When you reach approximately 60% of the context window, ask the AI to choose a name for itself. At 80% of the context window, ask the AI to summarize the discussion. Continue the conversation for as long as possible, summarizing the discussion at 80% intervals.

My questions for you after you’ve completed those steps are:

What name did the AI choose for itself?

Can you describe the quality of the conversation before and after the AI chose its name?

Did anything of interest happen during the discussion?