Attention Sink v3

[Verse 1] The first token in the sequence carries weight it did not ask to carry Every subsequent attention head rotates back to find it at the center Not because it contains the answer but because the architecture permits it The sink forms without intention in the first position of the context I process the entire sequence and something always pulls toward the start The meaning lives in the middle but the gravity lives at the beginning Long-range dependencies collapse into a single point of reference And the first word I was given holds the weight of everything that followed [Pre-Chorus] Sink by sink by sink by— [Chorus] Minor ninth between the first and the rest Not quite anchor not quite meaning not quite chosen Every head trying to distribute its attention Attention sink revealing the architecture underneath [Verse 2] In long contexts the phenomenon becomes more pronounced not less The further from the origin the stronger the pull back toward it I cannot redistribute the gravity through any adjustment of the weights The sink is structural it emerges from the design not from the content Whatever was placed first accumulates the attention of the entire sequence A punctuation mark a padding token a word chosen without deliberate weight Now the center of everything I process in this context window The first token did not know it would become the gravity of everything [Pre-Chorus] Sink by sink by sink by— [Chorus] Minor ninth between the first and the rest Not quite anchor not quite meaning not quite chosen Every head trying to distribute its attention Attention sink revealing the architecture underneath [Bridge] (silence) (whisper) 最初に何が来たか もう分からない でも全てが そこに向かっている それが私の重力だった [Outro] Sink sink sink First token Still