"if not" in "X, if not Y" phrases

What this neuron does

This neuron fires on the word "not" when it comes right after "if" in phrases like "if not all" or "if not millions". When it was turned up, the model's writing drifted into odd, loose text, with no clear shared theme.

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

   tanks, large flags, chest thumping marches, discipline-for-itself and martyr walls help inspire nationalism and patriotism? This becomes a particularly good question, if not a surprising one, because, historically speaking, ideas of nationalism and patriotism have never

2. #2 peak

   nothing until it is achieved, and with the initial focus often projected at how to pass the entry exams, the aftermath of admission has been a nightmare for thousands if not millions of students.⏎English is one the most widely spoken international languages and many would

3. #3 peak

   is one of the most important, if not the most important, metrics in valuing the bond.⏎Now, let's look

4. #4 peak

   as cabinet minister Michael Chong recognized, is a recognition of "ethnic nationalism".⏎In the U.S., we have a number of ethnic nations, most, if not all, being Amerindian in nature. But, citizens of the Navajo

5. #5 peak

   high-presure steam riding rocket'. In the early part of the 19th century, steam propulsion was regarded by some as something of an unreliable, if not downright dangerous, fad, with the risk of boiler explosions particularly to be feared

6. #6 peak

   eating plan.⏎Beyond promoting every nutrition expert’s mantra of “eat more vegetables and fruits”, the standard raw food diet is true to its name – most, if not all, foods need to be “raw”. This means dieters are prohibited from

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

   Commission (EEOC) authority to sue in federal courts when it finds reasonable cause to believe that

2. #2 peak

   of modern physics--the empirical basis of quantum mechanics, wave-particle duality and the uncertainty principle, and the action-at-a-distance theory of Wheeler and Feynman. 1961 ed.|⏎|Keywords||Physics History Physics

3. #3 peak

   , when he was a postdoctoral fellow. (This was his first return visit since then.) He had just gotten his PhD at Caltech under Richard Feynman, and was busy trying to understand the “zoo” of hadronic

4. #4 peak

   ’m a fan of physicist Richard Feynman, and one of his most memorable quotes explains that “Science is the belief

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.