Token-by-token generation — deepseek-r1:8b

The Sheep Riddle

Every branch is a token that received nonzero probability from the model's output distribution at that step, sized and colored by that probability. The copper path is the one the sampler actually drew.

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token span Ollama's API labels message.reasoning

Labeled “reasoning” because that is the literal field Ollama's API returns (message.reasoning) for this model family, alongside the literal <think>/</think> tokens the model was trained to emit around this span. The label names which tokens the final answer is conditioned on — it is not a claim about cognition. Every token on this page, inside that span or outside it, is produced the same way: softmax over logits, then a weighted random draw.

sampled — was also the top-probability token sampled — fell outside the shown top-k despite lower probability nonzero probability, not sampled

Built with vis-network from a real trace via Ollama's logprobs API: at every step the model's top candidate tokens and their real probabilities were captured, and the next token drawn by the server's own sampling -- not scripted.