'trying' after 'were' or 'are'

What this neuron does

This neuron fires on the word 'trying' when it comes right after a pronoun and a form of 'to be', as in 'they are trying to' or 'you're trying to'. Its strongest negative reactions are on odd word pieces like 'star' in 'star-crossed'. Turning it up made the model produce repetitive, off-topic text, so the link to 'trying' is not confirmed by the steering.

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

   faced with thousands of choices and for the student, such choice is overwhelming and confusing. By studying how and why other writers made decisions based upon the effects they were trying to produce in the reader, the student writer is guided through this confusion.⏎But

2. #2 peak

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3. #3 peak

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4. #4 peak

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5. #5 peak

   that will eventually form words. When she babbles and vocalizes now, your baby may sound as if she's making sense. That's because she's trying out tones and patterns similar to the ones

6. #6 peak

   structures (for example, "promoters") are not as sensitive to base pair sequences as proteins are to amino acid sequences, but these are exceptional; we are trying to account for the development of the large number of proteins that are very specific 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.

1. #1 peak

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2. #2 peak

   formula is used when nothing about the behavior of a population is known at all. * How to Use Slovin's Formula⏎Slovin's formula is written as

3. #3 peak

   life it was her own foolish choice and actions that lead to her and Romeo's death. Though the death of Romeo and Juliet was a tragic love story of two star-crossed lovers, caused by their families and friends, more specifically Friar Lawrence

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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.