the letter y starting a word

What this neuron does

This neuron lights up on a lone "y" that starts a word, such as "yawn", "yam" or "yells". Turned down, the model repeated the word "tinker" and similar filler, and turned up it wandered off-topic.

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

   medical history and do a physical examination.⏎Medical history questions may include:⏎- When did the excessive yawning begin?⏎- How many times do you yawn per hour or day?⏎- Is it worse in the morning, after lunch

2. #2 peak

   aur, taught Achilles how to use this herb.⏎Whether or not that is true, the world will never know, but we do know that healers placed rolled yarrow leaves into the nose of those who were bleeding throughout medieval times. Achilles might

3. #3 peak

   garden⏎In the first volume of “Deer in My Garden”, beloved local garden guru Carolyn Singer wrote, “’Grandma, why don’t you grow yucky flowers?’ ‘Why would I do that, Marcus?’ I asked, respectful

4. #4 peak

   shipwrecks from the Byzantine Empire, eight of which are now described in a new report.⏎The shipwrecks were discovered at a site called Yenikapi, in Istanbul, in what was a port of the ancient city

5. #5 peak

   . There, too, the government, along with billions from Europe and the US, has tried to give growers an incentive to change crops. But alternative crops like yuca or rice sell for much less and are harder to get to market than

6. #6 peak

   provides. The highly nutritious oca root is also grown commecially in New Zealand where it has become a popular root vegetable and where it is commonly known as yam.⏎In North America and Europe, oca root is relatively unknown and not

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

   . So closely entwined are their lives that a number of evolutionary biologists argue that dogs and humans have evolved together.⏎Over the past decade, a loose-knit band of scientists in laboratories in the United States and abroad have worked diligently

2. #2 peak

   the first park set aside to protect man-made wonders?⏎Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.⏎What is the largest U.S. National Park?⏎Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska (13.2 million acres)⏎

3. #3 peak

   Gothic, Perpendicular Gothic choir, religious fervour, Roman city of Eboracum, Roman ruins, school visits, secret sign, skilled carvers, St Bosa of York, St William of York, stained glass, stonem

4. #4 peak

   to retrieve the correct value from the data table above.⏎Have you ever built an app based on Excel?⏎Method 1: The easiest way (VLOOKUP & MATCH)⏎Probably the easiest – or at least the shortest – way of returning values

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.