the word "the" starting a text

What this neuron does

This neuron reacts most strongly to the word "The" when it is the first word of a new piece of text, especially right after an end-of-document marker. Its negative side is weak and hard to read. Turning it up or down did not produce a clear change in theme.

Written by Claude from this neuron's activations and steering outputs. Confidence: medium. Think it is wrong? Flag it (opens a prefilled issue on GitHub).

Fires most on

The text windows where this neuron's activation was highest. Amber marks positive activation; the outlined token is the peak. Hover a token for its strength.

1. #1 peak

   <|endoftext|>The Battle of the Kasserine Pass was a battle that took place during the Tunisia

2. #2 peak

   The quest to achieve the impossible fuels creativity, spawns new fields of inquiry, illuminates

3. #3 peak

   The studio probably had little choice but to create a form letter.⏎I don’t think

4. #4 peak

   The recipient previously opened the message⏎Still, also the recall won’t work If a

5. #5 peak

   The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” written the summer after he graduated from high school in

6. #6 peak

   The unused funds — called Universal Service and Access Funds (USAFs) — are

Steering

Push this neuron up or down while the model writes, and watch what changes. The outputs were generated ahead of time, so nothing runs in your browser.

Most negative on

Where the activation went furthest below zero. Blue marks negative activation. Many neurons mean something different in each direction.

1. #1 peak

   lots there can be lots of traffic. The noise that is created during the drilling operation affects wildlife. Their migration routes may be affected.⏎Drilling operations need heavy equipment like bulldozers. These may affect the vegetation and leave permanent damage on the

2. #2 peak

   other school supplies. They are also used to carry lunch and other items.⏎History of backpacks⏎Originally designed to carry heavy equipment, korean backpack for school became popular for carrying books in the early 1

3. #3 peak

   tabs are an important statistical process that summarizes two or more variables of categorical data into a contingency table. They

4. #4 peak

   tasks that require operating electrical equipment.⏎This becomes even more common for people who work exclusively in the electrical department, fixing up wiring issues, using different highly-charged equipment, etc.

Which neurons in earlier layers feed this one, and which later ones it feeds. Amber links excite, blue links suppress; longer bars are stronger.

Activation histogram

How often this neuron fires at each strength. Almost always it does close to nothing (the tall bars in the middle); the snippets above are the rare moments it fired hard, amber for positive and blue for negative.

Logit lens

The words this neuron nudges the model toward (amber) or away from (blue) when it fires. A hint, not a label: many neurons work through later layers instead.