the '1' starting a century

What this neuron does

This neuron reacts to the digit 1 at the start of a century, like the 1 in '1800s' or '18th century'. When turned up the model drifted into talk about 'four' and 'middle', and when turned down it repeated the digit 8.

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

   let letter, Reverend Dimmesdale, and burrs to add onto the overall theme of guilt.⏎Nathaniel Hawthorne was a writer in the 1800s, an anti

2. #2 peak

   Cudnow. Count and Polish writer.⏎In the historical narrative Soplica’s Memoirs (1839), which takes place in the mid-18th century, Rzewuski created a gallery of types from the Polish

3. #3 peak

   Book Society', founded in 1878.⏎Polled Herefords were developed from the horned Hereford breed which was founded in the mid-18th century by the farmers of Hereford County, England. Among the horn

4. #4 peak

   the Reformation.⏎John Knox and the Monstrous Regiment of Women | Presbyterian Historical Society.<|endoftext|>The Booth family was an English-American theatrical family of the 19th century. Its most famous and well known members were Edwin Booth, one

5. #5 peak

   817 and 1826, whose purpose was to educate and train non-white Christian missionaries. The book focuses upon the evangelical movement of the 19th century, and American attitudes on interracial relationships as demonstrated in the unfavorable,

6. #6 peak

   1760 and 1782. This piece is a excellent example of that cross section of Baroque and Classical styles found in the mid-1700s, and bares stylistic similarities to Haydn's own

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

   anticipation of the availability of the more secure and complex WPA2, which became available in 2004 and is a common shorthand for the full IEEE 802.11i (or IEEE 802.1

2. #2 peak

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

3. #3 peak

   heart is resting between beats.⏎Along with high cholesterol and being overweight or obese, a high blood pressure diagnosis, also known as hypertension (over 130/80), is a major risk factor for heart disease or stroke. And because

4. #4 peak

   a greater optical density than air.⏎Substance Speed of light (m/sec)⏎Vacuum 3 x 108⏎Air 3 x 108⏎Water 2.258 x 108⏎Glass

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.