'the' in historical names

What this neuron does

This neuron fires on the word "the" that sits inside a famous name, like "Ivan the Terrible" or "William the Conqueror". It points toward words for "her" and away from "he" or "him". When turned up, the text shifted toward female pronouns and when turned down it kept repeating "he".

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

   that is, agree to a Russian sphere of influence in Eastern Europe . . .⏎The second line is of an economic nature. It originated in trade contacts between Ivan the Terrible and Elizabeth I, the Queen

2. #2 peak

   . In particular, polygamy is the practice of a man taking more than one wife, while polyandry is the practice of a woman taking more than one husband. Polygamy is a common model of marriage in some parts of the

3. #3 peak

   also installed sticky mats on the floor<|endoftext|>Achilles was the greatest warrior to have ever lived. He was the Golden Warrior of the Bronze Age. Even Alexander the Great admired and emulated Achilles throughout his life, sleeping with a copy of the

4. #4 peak

   which since 1981 has been strongly linking Germany, for example, first with the USSR and later with Putin’s Russia.⏎From the times of Ivan the Terrible till this day, Russia has been trying to present itself to the Western

5. #5 peak

   , the day of St. Stephen the Martyr, everyone goes out and visits friends and relatives, weather permitting. One

6. #6 peak

   saw an American F-86 being attacked by a Russian MiG-15 and went in pursuit.⏎Captain Semyon Alekseyevich Fedorets, commanding the 913th IAP (Istrebitel

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

   .⏎When Hamlet is engaged in a discussion with Gertrude, they are sparring with words. She is talking about one thing, he another. She tells him he has offended his father very much (meaning Claudius, who is not

2. #2 peak

   in the past. "I stop there yesterday," though ungrammatical, gets the message across.⏎"He is here." The agreement between the third person subject "he" and the third person of the verb "is" is basically redundant.

3. #3 peak

   a controversial figure even within the communist world. People who were his friends and those who were opposed to him held differing opinions on him and had varying interpretations and explanations of his motives for participating in the revolutions against capitalism and imperialism all over the world.⏎

4. #4 peak

   . After his great struggle, we got freedom on 15th August 1947. He played a vital role in our independence, so we called him as the father of the nation. All our Indians with great love and affection

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.