"first" in "for the first time"

What this neuron does

This neuron fires on the word "first" in the phrase "for the first time". When turned up, the model started repeating the word "time".

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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

   was set up in the country just over a decade ago that has revolutionised African banking, and given access to financial services to millions of the poorest people for the first time. M-Pesa<|endoftext|>It has been said that that major historic events are

2. #2 peak

   a, and the festive season in full swing, the spectre of an untreatable sexually transmitted infection looms over us - and our teenagers - for the first time in a generation.⏎Since penicillin was first used to treat gonorrh

3. #3 peak

   made a mistake has never tried anything new.” ~ Albert Einstein⏎When we’re small children, our mistakes are applauded. Our falling-down attempts to walk for the first time are cheered by our parents, giving us the courage to get up and try

4. #4 peak

   a new mass murder, the Holocaust, was unfolding before his eyes. Seventy years ago this autumn, Lemkin used the word “genocide” for the first time, in his book ‘Axis Rule in Occupied Europe.’ The 7

5. #5 peak

   disciplines on the road to “the wolf’s lair.”⏎The result is an unsparing history of the German resistance to Hitler—one where the players emerge for the first time as real people with complex motives and

6. #6 peak

   970's when President Nixon visited mainland China for the first time. Today, that may not seem like such a big deal. But back

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

   the tar sands.⏎The Alberta tar sands has dominated headlines and television news since a Greenpeace Canada delegation arrived in Oslo Monday. Two of the delegates, Andrew Nikiforuk and Dr. John O'Connor, have raised concerns about the environmental,

2. #2 peak

   by attacking the large corporation E Corp.⏎Elliot Alderson, its a young man living in New York City, who works at the

3. #3 peak

   becoming an increasingly popular alternative to lawsuits. As a result,<|endoftext|>10 / The Natural World⏎|Artist / Origin||⏎Albrecht Altdorfer (German, 1480–1538)⏎

4. #4 peak

   François Mitterand who, in 1954, defiantly pronounced that ‘L’Algérie, c’est la France’. Nicolas Sarkozy, on the other hand,

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.