'a' after 'tell', 'bring' or 'much of'

What this neuron does

The neuron fires on the word 'a' in phrases like 'tell a history', 'bring a fresh perspective' or 'much of a workout'. Turning it up did not give the writing a clear new subject.

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

   determine the movements necessary to pick up a weight in the invented environment. Grab hold, stiffen your arm, and lift. It doesn't sound like much of a workout, but the researchers say it could be useful in therapy for people recovering from

2. #2 peak

   49F for pure metal and about 512F for tin-zinc alloys. Tests show that screws plated with the material do not stand much of a chance in hot areas. One test run several years ago by J. Bick

3. #3 peak

   collections in Greater Manchester⏎A compass used in a PoW escape, a railway station sundial and part of the world's first commercial computer: objects that tell a history of Manchester and its place in the world.⏎BBC Manchester and museums across Greater

4. #4 peak

   ofs is an introduction to modern symbolic logic, covering sentential and predicate logic (with identity). The course is highly interactive and engaging. It brings a fresh perspective to classical material by focusing on developing two crucial logical skills: strategic construction

5. #5 peak

   Kitten? How Do I Tell a Kitten’s Age?⏎If your kitten is yet to get its adult teeth,

6. #6 peak

   , must speak to a much wider audience: to the educated general public and academic audiences worldwide.⏎Inquiry editors are members of that wider audience, who can tell an author when a concept, process, or term is or is not clear. Often

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

   Moving Picture Experts Group⏎||Flexible, works with a wide range of editing and compression programs; have support for multiple video or audio streams⏎||MP4 is are usually compressed; compatible with more devices like iPad, iPod, iPhone, Android Phone

2. #2 peak

   . R is a programming language for statistics computing. These tools, especially their open source packages, have

3. #3 peak

   muscle tissue and white blood cells of autistic children, as well as in the brains of mice with a different mutation linked to autism2,3.⏎“We’ve had this global sense that mitochondrial dysfunction may be particularly relevant to synaptic defects, but I think

4. #4 peak

   done with the bill. See HERE in the case of the Red-breasted Parakeet (Psittacula alexandri). On the other hand, with aboreal birds, they scratch with

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.