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State typically means between interactions. By this definition a simple for loop has “hidden state” in the counter.

>>brooks+(OP)
Hidden layer is a term of art in machine learning / neural network research. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_layer . Somehow this term mutated into "hidden state", which in informal contexts does seem to be used quite often the way the grandparent comment used it.

>>ChadNa+r9
It makes sense in LLM context because the processing of these is time-sequential in LLM's internal time.