blank slot between a date's day and year

What this neuron does

This neuron reacts to the spot in a full date just before the year, such as the gap after "May 9," when the year "1862" is about to come next. It is strongest when a full date is written out in news or history text. Turning it up did not give a clear, readable change in the model's output.

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

   security requirements of the PCI Security Standards Council. Outdated browsers do not support the requirements of modern web applications and pose significant security risks. After May 1, 2017, this browser will no longer be supported and you may experience

2. #2 peak

   across party lines, as this photo was physical evidence of the trauma that children experience during separation. After intense pressure socially and politically, on June 20, 2018, the Trump administration reversed the policy, just eight days after

3. #3 peak

   the Hutchinson County. The site of Stinnett was selected because it was out of the rough country along the Canadian River.⏎On July 24th, 1926, A. S. Stinnett and Joe Williams paid

4. #4 peak

   Buffalo, Rochester, Minneapolis, Chicago, and Los Angeles.⏎Eight months after the formation of the Proletarian University of America, on May 24, 1919

5. #5 peak

   government research money comes from. John Boylan, busy reading medical school applications, replied simply that it comes from NIH. So, on Feb. 9, 1957, Terence sent NIH his grant application:⏎Boylan's

6. #6 peak

   They battled the elements, disease, hunger and hostile natives.⏎Many died on the journey.⏎But recording the movement of Venus across the sun on June 3, 1769, helped gauge a crucial standard of measurement called the Astronom

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

   ⏎ENERGY STAR was introduced by the US Environmental Protection Agency in 1992 as a voluntary labeling program designed to identify and promote energy-efficient products, in order to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. EPA partnered with the US Department of Energy in

2. #2 peak

   medium" ids="2568,2567,2569,2570"]These skills enable them to increase income, in the market, and how to profitably invest their income. We have been working

3. #3 peak

   Bookworms, and her daughter Havana, we are tackling a controversial topic that we hope will help to

4. #4 peak

   freedom of scientific research and encourages cooperation in the service of science.⏎Article III: Parties agree to exchange research and program plans, scientific results, and scientific personnel, in the spirit of scientific cooperation.⏎Article IV: Discusses territorial claims and declares that

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.