"first" in role phrases

What this neuron does

This neuron fires on the word "first" when it names someone's role or rank, such as "its first president" or "the first Black student". Turning it up gave wandering, repetitive text that did not clearly show this pattern.

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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.

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   services. Originally called the Little Rock Congregation, the group formally incorporated as B’nai Israel in 1867 and elected Morris Navra as its first president. Samuel Peck joined the congregation as a spiritual leader the following year.

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   in 1914, the⏎Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America was created. At age 26,⏎Hillman was elected its first president, an office he would hold until⏎his death 32 years later

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   be identical to their constituents but it matters that they share common experiences and perspectives.⏎This is the case for Jamila Debbech Ksiksi, the first black Tunisian MP. She has always felt that she was in Parliament to defend

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   Montpelier, Vermont, on December 26, 1837. A hero of the Civil War and Spanish-American War, he was the first, and to date only, person promoted to Admiral of the Navy.⏎Marihu

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   island of Sumatra on Wednesday, triggering a tsunami alert for the Indian Ocean.⏎The quake struck about 430 kilometers from Banda Aceh, the capital of Indonesia's Aceh province, and had a magnitude of 8.7

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   ission of Slaves, and Protecting Such of Them as Have Been, or May be Liberated or the New York Manumission Society, and became its first president in 1785.⏎The organization was originally composed of Jay and

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.

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   21st-century America. But to accomplish this requires an understanding of where these divisions originated.⏎“A Dreadful Deceit” uses the life stories of six people to illustrate the history of race in the

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   -ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.<|endoftext|>is a former municipality in Akershus⏎, which lends its name to a municipality and a county in Norway⏎. The name originally belonged to a farm which

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   at the truth. To find and avoid science’s seductive pitfalls, researchers are studying science itself, a field called meta-research.⏎Now, a paper by three Stanford researchers that delves into those pitfalls appears in Proceedings of the National Academy of

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   AttachmentsAccessible Version Accessible version of the tutorial content in PDF format⏎Source and Access Information⏎Aligned StandardsThis vetted resource aligns to concepts or skills in these benchmarks.⏎In this interactive tutorial, learn about the major factors that led to America

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.