the word 'exception' or 'exceptions'

What this neuron does

This neuron lights up on the word 'exception' (or 'exceptions') when it comes right after words like 'the only', 'is no', or 'an'. When it was turned up, the written text drifted into unrelated topics and got repetitive, so the steering shows no clear theme.

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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

   ,” you do it. I’m usually not a fan of historical fiction, particularly novels set during wars, but Joseph Bruchac’s Code Talker is an exception, a book I’m so happy to have been recommended.⏎During WWII, the

2. #2 peak

   article Oils, Fats and Health).Varieties⏎General: Oils and fats are pretty uniform at 120 calories per tablespoon. The only exceptions are semi-solid products sold whipped with a lot of air - fewer calories by the

3. #3 peak

   . When an athlete breaks the law, the league tries to avoid making a statement with their response. Michael Vick, Donald Sterling, and post-video Ray Rice are exceptions. Leniency—what we saw in the initial response to Rice’s behavior

4. #4 peak

   s. Words ending in -quy don’t follow this rule (as in soliloquies).⏎Add -s to most nouns ending in -f.⏎Exceptions: In some cases, change the -f to -v and add -es

5. #5 peak

   953, before there was a reasonably complete edition of his writings. Sure, there were plenty of Lincoln biographies before those dates, but with only one exception (an authorized multi-volume door-stopper by his former White House aides), there

6. #6 peak

   indication of the part of the wall upon which they labored, such places being on that side of the city nearest their place of abode; the only apparent exception being, perhaps, where they repaired more than their

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

   don’t like to eat food contaminated by pesticides,” said EWG president Ken Cook. “Our shopper’s guide to pesticides in produce gives consumers easy

2. #2 peak

   As RECOGNIZED GENERALLY BY BIBLICAL SCHOLARS, TREATED AS A SCIENCE, DERIVED INDUCTIVELY FROM AN EXEGESIS OF MANY PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE. By CL

3. #3 peak

   eighth edition of its Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce with updated information on 45 popular fruits and vegetables and their total pesticide loads. EWG highlights the worst offenders with its new Dirty Dozen Plus list and the cleanest

4. #4 peak

   latest USDA tests show we have much more work to do.”⏎EWG researchers analyzed annual pesticide residue tests conducted by the USDA and federal Food and Drug Administration

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.