'time' in 'for the first time'

What this neuron does

This neuron fires on the word 'time' in the phrase 'for the first time', and it is quite reliable on that phrase. Turning it up pushed the output toward 'first time' and first-ever events, so the steering matches the examples.

Written by Claude from this neuron's activations and steering outputs. Confidence: high. 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

   970's when President Nixon visited mainland China for the first time. Today, that may not seem like such a big deal. But back t

2. #2 peak

   96, the first modern Olympic Games are held in Athens, Greece, with athletes from 14 countries participating.⏎The International Olympic Committee met for the first time in Paris in June 1984 and chose Greece as the site of

3. #3 peak

   It turns out that robot design could become much more than just a research tool.⏎Team leader Robert J Full of UC Berkeley states, "We showed for the first time that lizards swing their tail up or down to counteract the rotation of their

4. #4 peak

   accelerators.⏎In 1956, a team of physicists led by Americans Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines observed the ghostly particles for the first time. For their discovery, Reines shared the 1995 Nobel Prize

5. #5 peak

   repeated it a few times since then.⏎But there were two new dimensions of the recent flight. One, it carried a Chinese woman astronaut into space for the first time. Secondly and far more significantly, it demonstrated China's capability to conduct docking of

6. #6 peak

   one of largest cities of the region, also belongs to this number. This name was mentioned for the first time on the earliest copper coins of Buxārā (4th –

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

   criteria.<|endoftext|>The haunting image of the fallen soldier, aged just 18, is one of a hundred portraits of those who served in the First World War published on Friday by the Imperial War Museum (IWM).⏎The museum is

2. #2 peak

   previously done laboriously by hand in hundreds of weavers’ cottages were brought together in a single cotton mill, and the factory was born. The second industrial revolution came in the early 20th century, when Henry Ford mastered the moving

3. #3 peak

   students learn to tell and write time from analog and digital clocks to the nearest five minutes, using a.m. and p.m.⏎Common Core: 2.MD.7⏎

4. #4 peak

   961, the 23rd Amendment let District of Columbia residents vote in Federal Elections.⏎In 1964, the 24th Amendment let vote those who could not pay a poll tax.⏎In 196

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.