'a' after a preposition

What this neuron does

This neuron fires on the word 'a' or 'an' when it comes after a preposition like 'for', 'from' or 'of', as in 'look out for a definition'. Its opposite is 'the' after 'one of'. Turning it up did not produce a clear theme in the generated text.

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

   in general, but if they get in this habit early, they will be building a routine that can last a lifetime. Ask what your child wants to do for a

2. #2 peak

   the panelists could come to a common understanding. This raised a few questions in my head. Disappointed with the expert advice, I decided to look out for a definition of my own.⏎As what’s needed in such a situation, I looked

3. #3 peak

   ill-equipped men in his command. Fremont, whose Federals were also ill-equipped and trained, had nearly 40,000.⏎Price left a small garrison at Lexington, which was overrun by Major Frank J. White’s

4. #4 peak

   .⏎We tend to dwell on the deaths, but often overlook the survivors of a life altering collision. Crashes don’t discriminate! Everyone is at risk, from a newborn properly restrained in a car seat, to a bicyclist or pedestrian in the

5. #5 peak

   Hitler on both occasions, thus putting himself firmly on the Gestapo’s list of enemies; in 1938, as the Nazi vice was closing on an independent Austria, the archduke, at obvious risk to his life, volunteered

6. #6 peak

   System that contains information on reported live births in the U.S.⏎The researchers were interested in pinning down the average age of first-time mothers since the age of a woman’s first birth has a bearing on the total number of births she may have

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

   number of cancers and scientists around the globe are busy trying to harness the power of the immune system in the fight against cancer. The HPV vaccine is just one of the first; expect to hear more and more about the topic in the future.⏎The

2. #2 peak

   . As you develop your<|endoftext|>Catherine Rampell had a post last week declaring that “College is (Still) Worth It“. The piece is the latest in a series that she and her Economix blog colleague

3. #3 peak

   , the United States has lost over 50 percent of its managed honeybee colonies over the past 10 years.⏎Pollinator gardens are just one of the many ways to provide both shelter and food to insects teetering on the brink

4. #4 peak

   This video is part two of a seven-part National Academies series, Climate Change: Lines of Evidence. The video

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.