'only' before a verb or adjective

What this neuron does

This neuron fires on the word 'only' when it sits in the middle of a phrase like 'is only effective' or 'are only just beginning', right after a verb. It is a hedging word before the main point. Turning it up gave lists of counting or repeated descriptive phrases, which does not clearly match the trigger.

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

   cal infection, which causes grave illnesses, including pneumonia, meningitis, and middle-ear infections. Children and the elderly are especially at risk. Vaccines are only effective against a few of the pneumococcal types and increasing resistance to antibiotics

2. #2 peak

   of blah magazine’, cardboard red and blue ’3D’ glasses?! These classics marked the beginning of mainstream 3D for film and TV audiences – in fact only recently there were a spate of classic 3D movies played on Channel

3. #3 peak

   the canal became an issue. So in 1905 the city completed the bridge over the canal. The first bridge was a transporter bridge, on of only a few ever built, and had a gondola which was raised and transported

4. #4 peak

   “Overall, young people’s ability to reason about the information on the Internet can be summed up in one word: bleak.”⏎The question of how it works is only slightly less obvious. The short answer is, “Mud sticks”. If you

5. #5 peak

   the aptitude and the inclination should have the opportunity to receive entrepreneurial training and access to resources like low-interest loans to become self-employed.⏎Of course, training is only the first step. Once trained, they should be connected job opportunities. Life skill

6. #6 peak

   its native ecosystems means a return to a more natural state, a point we made in a post last week. Second, ecosystem dynamics are incredibly complex and we are only just beginning to understand the role that even a single species can play.⏎Wolves

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

   19 percent).⏎Among Gulf War-era II veterans in 2009, 31 percent of veterans aged 18 to 24 years were enrolled in school. As for older

2. #2 peak

   and 10% with colorectal cancer.⏎Those three cancers accounted for slightly more than half of all cancer diagnoses.⏎Nearly 60% of survivors were 65 or older, the report found. The largest number of survivors with prostate

3. #3 peak

   in history,” citing the lack of students being exempted from the draft as the reasoning.⏎But nothing is said about the fact that less than half of the population ages 18-26 are actually considered. If the military wanted to have

4. #4 peak

   rivers, and in small streams, lakes, marshes, and even roadside ditches containing adequate year-round water flow. In areas where deep, calm water is not available, beavers that have enough building material available will create ponds by building dams

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.