"as if" / "as though" after seem or look

What this neuron does

This neuron lights up on the word "as" when it comes right after words like "seems", "looks" or "feels" and starts a comparison such as "as if" or "as though". When it was turned up, the model just kept writing the word "if" over and over.

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

   chairman Mahmoud Abbas is accusing Israel of “genocide,” and the PA’s newspaper is calling the war “Israel’s Holocaust.”⏎It seems as if every time Israel defends itself, somebody points an accusing finger and yells “

2. #2 peak

   Frankenstein’s monster, consisting of two identical M1 Max chips bolted together using a silicon interface that serves as a bridge. This clever design makes it seem as if the conjoined chips are in fact just

3. #3 peak

   y⏎May 27, 2012⏎When the last American astronauts blasted off from the Moon in 1972, it seemed as if they were leaving behind monuments that would stand for all time. On a life

4. #4 peak

   (the form is at the bottom of the page).⏎Esther – Day 3⏎Xerxes wanted to show off his beautiful wife! But it seems as though he did not give her too much thought until he had drunk too much!

5. #5 peak

   his book:⏎The two entities that were supposed to write the regulations, the Pay Board and the Price Commission, wrangled and dithered. When it looked as though they were going to miss a crucial deadline

6. #6 peak

   because there is seldom just one. In the beginning, actinic keratoses are frequently so small that they are recognized by touch rather than sight. It feels as if you were running a finger over sandpaper. There are many times the number

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

   Mind and Life Institute dialogue. We highlight some of the passages Adele Diamond presented to the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala — including texts from Rabbi Heschel, Bashevis Singer, Rachel Naomi Remen, and Henri Nouwen

2. #2 peak

   the cortical area just posterior to the auditory cortex (Heschl's gyrus) within the Sylvian fissure. It is a triangular

3. #3 peak

   .⏎Plants were perfect and completely green and had a good amount<|endoftext|>A remarkable new species of tyrannosaur has been unearthed in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM), southern Utah. The huge carnivore inhabited

4. #4 peak

   . This class shows how such demographic dynamics influenced early jazz development and how the urban environment in promoted gender diversification and the social acceptance of jazz. Report on Hersch due. Read Lawrence Gushee, "A Preliminary Chron

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.