opening year or date range

What this neuron does

This neuron fires on the space right before a year or date, such as the years in a historical dating phrase. Turning it up gave wandering, unrelated text, and turning it down made the model repeat words like can't or is.

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

   1185 CE), Japanese art flourished, and new forms of art, such as screen painting, began to emerge. The Kamakura period (1185 CE to 1333 CE) saw the rise

2. #2 peak

   galaxy of ours — and the galaxies beyond. And we have Copernicus, among others, to thank for that.⏎Copernicus was born in Poland in 1473 and as a young man became fascinated by math, medicine and

3. #3 peak

   the River May (now St. John’s, Florida), in 1564. […]⏎Jacques le Moyne de Morgues (c. 1533–1588) was a French artist and member

4. #4 peak

   He loved them very much. They always used to help one another<|endoftext|>Ramses III, Ramses also spelled Ramesses or Rameses (died 1156 bce, Thebes, Egypt), king of ancient Egypt

5. #5 peak

   revised, January 2003, December 2006⏎Part I: The Umayyad Caliphate (661 – 750 CE)⏎5 Tibet on the Eve of the Arrival of the First

6. #6 peak

   ⏎Ink painting originated in China during the Tang dynasty (AD 618-907) and was known in Japan by the eighth

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

   06:37. Five midget submarines had been assigned to torpedo U.S. ships after the bombing started. None of these returned, and only four have since been found. Of the ten sailors aboard, nine died; the only survivor

2. #2 peak

   24, 1896 – December 21,1940) was an Irish American Jazz Age novelist and short story writer, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the Twentieth Century. Fitzgerald

3. #3 peak

   eventually to be added to Olympic National Park.⏎Besides serving as postmaster, Fannie operated the store and overnight accommodations at Mora. A few of her diaries, written from 1914 to 1922, have

4. #4 peak

   0, recounts how Radbod's son was baptised and "freed from the flesh", and died soon after. Unfortunately, no name of the son is given. Was he Fris perhaps?⏎The story of Fris reminds us of

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.