article 'a' after a role or title

What this neuron does

This neuron fires on the word "a" or "an" that comes right after a phrase like "and", "of which he was", or "not", where a job title or role is about to follow. Turning it up gave text that did not clearly relate to this pattern.

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

   at IBM Research – India for ten years. His work has led to twelve patents from the USPTO. A Senior Member of the IEEE and the ACM and a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Authority, he is the recipient of the INAE

2. #2 peak

   “The goal of the research was to better understand the economic impact of North Carolina’s seafood industry,” says Jane Harrison, North Carolina Sea Grant’s coastal economics specialist and a project lead. “The shellfish results indicate the strength of the growing aquac

3. #3 peak

   —still half the rate of the global average.1⏎Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations as well as a journalist and the best-selling author of The Dressmaker of Khair Khana,

4. #4 peak

   Festivals, and Associate Producer/Writer for Westinghouse TV. He currently serves on the Executive Board of the Stage Managers’ Association, of which he was a founding member and former chairperson. He has taught at both Emerson College and Stock

5. #5 peak

   has been sworn in as the new Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. As a career diplomat, he is the first person to serve in this role who is not a career intelligence officer. We believe that his experience and expertise will be a valuable asset

6. #6 peak

   .<|endoftext|>Dr Ana Cruz is a Research Fellow with Modernising Medical Microbiology, and a key part of the new CRyPTIC Project, where we will aim to

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

   activities of the Mennonites of Russia can be divided into three periods: 1789-1860, 1860-191

2. #2 peak

   is a cousin of the former first lady, is the chief rabbi of the black Jewish community. He also leads Beth Shalom B’nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation in Chicago. Uniquely among Hebrew Israelite rabbis,

3. #3 peak

   from which the priests wash their hands and feet before engaging in Divine service; the compounding of the incense and of the anointing oil; and the Shabbat. I shall focus here upon the washing of the hands.⏎Hand-w

4. #4 peak

   to purchase a Torah scroll and ram’s horn for the upcoming High Holy Day services. Originally called the Little Rock Congregation, the group formally incorporated as B’nai Israel in 1867 and elected Morris Navra as its first president

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.