'this' after 'earlier' or 'in'

What this neuron does

This neuron fires on the word 'this' in phrases about time or place, such as 'earlier this year', 'in this area' or 'this month'. Turning it up did not give a clear, related change in the replies.

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

   colleges and universities and public school systems have embarked on aggressive efforts to overhaul science curriculums, laboratories and teacher training. President Clinton's education legislation passed earlier this year by Congress, the Goals 2000: Educate America Act

2. #2 peak

   Zed Seselja described the UN criticisms as “bizarre”.⏎The UN report followed harsh interim and final reports on the state of affairs in Australia earlier this year by the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous People Victoria

3. #3 peak

   simple premise had yet to be tested. John enlisted coleopterist Peter Kovarik as a partner in this study. The two decided that in addition to butterflies, scarabaeine scar

4. #4 peak

   clamation project continues to clean up the polluted canal.⏎The Malting factory has been abandoned since 1989 when Canadian National stopped rail service to industries in this area of the canal. The clay silos are protected as part of the L

5. #5 peak

   be a watershed moment in the fight to stop climate change, as Congress returns from its recess to take up the energy bill and consider landmark global warming legislation. Earlier this year

6. #6 peak

   of these occurred among adults between the ages of 25 and 34, a number high enough to mean that 20% of all deaths in this age group in 2016 involved opioids.⏎Among those between the ages

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

   “Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them…. So

2. #2 peak

   giveth of his bread to the poor.” – Proverbs 22:9⏎2 Corinthians 9:6-8 – “But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which

3. #3 peak

   The African American Migration Experience, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.⏎- Chicago and the Great Migration, The Newberry.⏎- "Sir I Will Thank You with All My Heart": Seven Letters from the Great Migration, History Matters

4. #4 peak

   proclaimed, "Here we will build a temple to our God." When the city was surveyed, the block enclosing

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.