unclear: mid-clause words in expository prose

What this neuron does

The neuron fires on words in the middle of explanatory sentences, like 'first' after 'hits the ground', or 'quintile' and 'average'. No single topic stands out. Turning it up made the writing drift into lists and repeated phrases, which does not reveal a clear meaning.

Written by Claude from this neuron's activations and steering outputs. Confidence: low. 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

   the ‘villainous molecule’ in the greenhouse effect and noted “adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere inevitably causes a temperature rise. And the more you add, the greater the temperature rise.” (p.52) As we have noted

2. #2 peak

   believed to act differently on different objects.⏎- Drop a metal bar and a feather at the same time… which one hits the ground first?⏎- Obviously, common sense will tell you that the bar will hit first,

3. #3 peak

   .⏎The researchers found that higher DASH scores were associated with higher scores for cognitive functioning at the beginning of the study and over time. Those in the highest quintile scored 1.42 points higher at baseline and 1.81

4. #4 peak

   fires to causing the least number of bushfires, and nominates which of these causes are most preventable.⏎

5. #5 peak

   that can be performed in space. The winner/winning team’s experiment will be conducted aboard the International Space Station (ISS), making it the

6. #6 peak

   present in the abdomen, chest, and/or under the skin⏎- Inflammation of the pancreas (pancreatitis)⏎- Shock and low levels of oxygen in the blood and tissues (hypoxia)⏎- Thrombocyt

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

   the area for months. And as is common in the Desert Southwest during summer, a monsoonal flow drew low pressure into the area, leading to the development of thunderstorms early in the morning of

2. #2 peak

   the creation of chaebol (large conglomerates), administered credit allocation with easy monetary policies from banks to priority sectors and export-oriented outward-looking policies to concentrate economic power highly

3. #3 peak

   Plato and Plotinius - or through story - in the case of Homer.⏎Plotinus, having been a proponent of Platonism, naturally concurs with Plato, postulating that each of us is comprised of an everyday, embodied experience

4. #4 peak

   coincidences. the roots of this philosophy go back as far as antiquity and ancient Greece.⏎All atheist philosophies that deny creation, directly or indirectly embrace and defend the idea of evolution. the same condition today applies to all the ideologies and systems

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.