"late" in dated phrases like "in the late 1980s"

What this neuron does

This neuron lights up on the word "late" when it comes right after "in the" and before a decade or century, as in "in the late 1800s." When it was turned up, the model's text drifted toward unrelated rambling, so the steering did not show a clear theme.

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

   ash-spewing hell vent whose name only Icelanders could pronounce—the B.C. volcanologist might have been best equipped to rationalize her frustration. Back in the late 1980s, Hickson had helped spearhead efforts to create

2. #2 peak

   ".⏎Famed British author Norman Davies noted that American forces fought with distinction on two fronts, but that it was our home factories that turned the tide. In the late 1930's, American industry produced consumer goods at a dog's

3. #3 peak

   permitted lamps to burn whale-oil and, later, kerosene—today, these are the primary kinds of antique lamps most favored by collectors. In the late 18th century, Swiss chemist Aime Argand invented the first

4. #4 peak

   Federal authorities for her Southern nationalism. A younger brother, Samuel, was a major in the Georgia infantry and spent time as a Union prisoner of war.⏎In the late 1840s, the Levy family left Charleston for

5. #5 peak

   explanation. As the last remaining fabric from a series of four, Oxford cloth’s story is one of inexplicable survival. In the late nineteenth century a Scottish Mill designed and produced four cloths, one for each of

6. #6 peak

   political discussion and debate in digital space having on real life politics? How is the Internet changing actual politics?⏎When the Internet began arriving in the Middle East in the late 1990s, some had high expectations that it would usher in

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

   the uprising⏎of the British Empire. But we have no right to this position of special⏎and honorable responsibility unless we are determined to use it to the⏎full, not for our own

2. #2 peak

   Should the money follow the people, who have flocked for decades to the Sun Belt, where homes are cheap and jobs are plentiful but climate risks mount by the day? Or, following the logic of Biden’s own order, should funds be directed

3. #3 peak

   a goat wants to go somewhere, and you don’t have a good hold on her, she’ll drag you along for the ride. She’s usually heading for the nearest fruit<|endoftext|>In a few days a carrier rocket

4. #4 peak

   each other to no avail. Each person’s actions were canceled out by the others’ actions. The sub just sat there.⏎Finally, from the back of the room, Carpenter’s voice suggested, “Why don’t you guys go

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.