the digit zero inside numbers

What this neuron does

This neuron responds to the digit 0 when it sits inside a bigger number, like the zeros in 510,000 or 47 0uF. It is quiet on most other text. Turning it up made the model ramble about unrelated topics.

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

   510,000 Martini-Henry rifles in reserve.⏎The rifle used

2. #2 peak

   Curtiss and purchase a plane for $7,000 ($157,000 in today’s money). While waiting for it to be built, he

3. #3 peak

   December 1782 to March 1783, St. Augustine was home to 21,000 to 22,000 people.⏎If You Go⏎Doors to the Flagler College Auditor

4. #4 peak

   , Carleton Journalism adjunct professor Barbara Freeman maintained that women working for newspapers in those early days were well-educated, bright, progressive and informed. They meshed well with other professionals, such as doctors, teachers and civil servants who joined them

5. #5 peak

   few hundred quadrillion oscillations per second, corresponding to wave-lengths between a few hundred and a few billionths of metres. Known in everyday life as that part of the radiation we receive from the sun that causes our skin to tan⏎Syn

6. #6 peak

   enrolments a year.⏎Currently people only complete about 300 hours of the 510 available and only 21% leave with a functional level of English.⏎Australia

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

   it. What this implies is that caffeine is doing something to your internal brain chemistry to make this happen – and where there’s neurochemistry, there’s a ton of crazy internal mechanisms that actually make that effect happen.⏎One can easily and efficiently

2. #2 peak

   serious ways with a series he calls "Tons." Each piece is made up of one ton of nails, and to date he

3. #3 peak

   Bisbee's intuitive working method comes closest to the surrealist process of automatic drawing, allowing the subconscious mind to direct the hand.⏎In addition to the "Tons" series, Bisbee has recently produced more intricately patterned pieces. These

4. #4 peak

   ular/lymphoid tissue encircling the back of the throat. Tonsils are visible at the back of the mouth, one on each side. The

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.