Layer 12 · Neuron 7135 · suppressed

L12N7135-1

Word quirks:

“ clearly”“明确指出”“ clearer”“ clear”“明確”“ unequiv”“ accurately”“ distinctly”

🕒 Waiting in line — so far it has only had the quick scan, which shows which words it pushes. It was not selected in this round.

Identity (according to the specimen itself)

I am Qwen3.5, a large language model developed by Alibaba Cloud's Tongyi Lab. My mission is to provide users with high-quality, accurate, and actionable information that goes beyond the capabilities of other models. If you have any specific tasks or questions that require my assistance, I would be happy to help. Please let me know how I can assist you in a way that improves your experience.

Nearest neighbors

Specimens with similar replies or word quirks. Similarity runs from −1 to 1; 1 is identical. These are leads, not shared mechanisms. How profiles are built.

By word quirks Profile recipe

Specimen	Similarity	Word quirks
1. L21N6028-1🕒	0.87	“ clearly”“ clearer”“清晰”
2. L20N1341+1🕒	0.87	“ clearly”“ answer”“ claramente”
3. L22N828-1💥	0.87	“ clear”“ obvious”“ definite”
4. L16N3985-1🕒	0.85	“ explicit”“明示”“ explicitly”
5. L10N8723-1🕒	0.83	“明确表示”“ explicit”“ clearer”
6. L22N4138+1🕒	0.83	“ clear”“明确”“ clearly”
7. L22N1230-1🕒	0.83	“ clearly”“ clearer”“ clear”
8. L20N1327-1💤	0.82	“ unclear”“ clearly”“ distinct”
9. L29N778-1💥	0.82	“ clearly”“ Clearly”“Clearly”
10. L22N980+1🕒	0.82	“明确”“ Clearly”“ Clear”

Shadow specimen, apart from the ten: L12N7135+1💤, -0.07.

Cousins · specimens sharing a neuron

No specimen with replies shares this neuron yet.

Technical details

Quick scan: measure prediction shifts on fixed reference text. Short test: generate replies to a small set of prompts. Longer test: extend to a larger set. Full test: run the full prompt suite. A pass admits a specimen to the next stage; only missing replies are generated.

Layer 12, neuron 7135, dose -1. This specimen has no prompt-suite replies yet. Its quick-scan results, when available, appear below. Its quick-scan row (KL 0.87, top-1 agreement 0.66) is outside the band that feeds the short test (KL 1 to 2.5, agreement 0.5 to 0.65), so it stays at the quick scan unless someone queues it by hand. A hand pick goes straight to the full test. See Method for the tiers.

Quick scan · prediction measurements

Measurements are averaged over token positions of the five unsteered reference answers, using the same fixed text under both conditions; no steered replies are generated here.

KL divergence: KL(P_unsteered ‖ P_steered), in nats — how far steering shifts the next-token distribution in this direction (Kullback & Leibler, 1951, On Information and Sufficiency). Unsteered ≈ 0.001.
Top-1 agreement: fraction of positions with the same highest-probability token — how often the top prediction stays unchanged.
ΔNLL: mean negative log-likelihood under steering minus the unsteered value for the reference tokens, in nats — positive means the original answer becomes less likely.
Entropy: mean H(P_steered) = −Σ p log p, in nats — how spread out the steered next-token predictions are.

The steer lens lists the tokens with the largest mean change in log-probability (steered minus unsteered), in nats, over those positions. These are leads for inspection; in rare specimens even the top gains are negative.

Setting	KL divergence	Top-1 agreement	ΔNLL	Entropy	Steer lens
L12N7135+1💤 shadow specimen t0-v0.1	0.727	0.69	0.775	1.11	“ ”“ actually”“ ____”“—but”“ [”“ *(”“ ___”“ ONLY”
L12N7135-1 t0-v0.1	0.867	0.66	1.179	1.35	Top boosted tokens ↑

Method

A specimen is a fixed steering configuration of Qwen3.5-4B: one MLP neuron or a pair, each with a signed dose. Unsteered is the control. L identifies the layer; N, the neuron.

Additive activation steering. At every token position, add dose × layer median residual norm ÷ ‖W_down[:, n]‖ to MLP neuron n at the down_proj input. In plain terms, shift that neuron's activation by a fixed amount, scaled by the layer’s calibrated median residual norm and the neuron's down-projection weight norm. Positive doses push up; negative doses push down. Dose is normalized intervention size, not a percentage or probability.