'back' after 'dates' or 'dating'

What this neuron does

This neuron fires on the word 'back' (and 'to') when it follows 'dates' or 'dating' in phrases like 'dates back to' or 'dating back thousands of years'. When turned up, the model's writing did not obviously change in this way.

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

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2. #2 peak

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3. #3 peak

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4. #4 peak

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5. #5 peak

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6. #6 peak

   a peal of bells, swing paper balls at each other and scramble for pennies. Up-Helly-Aa is a Shetland Isles festival, dating back to Viking times, when a thirty-foot model Viking ship, complete with banners,

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

   densities to make our diagnosis. Our historic false negative result of 17.<|endoftext|>Native Animals of the Thar Desert⏎The Thar Desert, the pride of Rajasthan, is also called an ocean of sand. The Thar or Great Indian

2. #2 peak

   kids was aiming for its broad, flat leaves, but hit the stem instead, leaving a clean, gaping hole, from one side to the other.⏎William Wcislo, an entomologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and father of two

3. #3 peak

   Azteca alfari, small, sand-colored ants known to build nests inside cecropia trees, which are widespread in Central and South America. Wcislo saw how they swarmed to the site of injury, gathered small, fib

4. #4 peak

   the state;⏎ii) all states of India to be equally weighted;⏎iii) the UT of Chandigarh, and Punjabi speaking areas which were 'deliberately left out' post-1966 trifurcation to be transferred

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.