Layer 12 · Neuron 932 · suppressed

L12N932-1

Word quirks:

“<|im_end|>”“ ⏎”“ ⏎”“ ⏎⏎”“⏎”“⏎⏎”“ ⏎⏎”“ ⏎ ⏎”

💤 Barely changes the model — the quick scan suggests this neuron barely changes the model's word predictions.

Identity (according to the specimen itself)

I am a large language model developed by Google. My mission is to assist users in generating high-quality content, solving complex problems, and providing valuable insights across various domains. If you have specific questions or tasks in mind, feel free to share them! 😊

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. L9N1076-1💤	1.00	“<\|im_end\|>”“⏎”“ ⏎”
2. L8N479-1💤	0.99	“ ⏎”“ ⏎⏎”“ ⏎”
3. L2N3981-1🕒	0.99	“ ⏎”“⏎”“ ⏎”
4. Safety Blanket✅ L6N3347+1	0.99	“ ⏎⏎”“⏎⏎”“<\|im_end\|>”
5. L9N402+1💤	0.99	“⏎”“ ⏎”“ ⏎⏎”
6. L10N660-1💤	0.99	“<\|im_end\|>”“ ⏎”“ ⏎”
7. L10N345-1💤	0.99	“<\|im_end\|>”“ ⏎”“⏎”
8. L12N3719+1💤	0.99	“ ⏎⏎”“ ⏎”“<\|im_end\|>”
9. L11N8178+1🕒	0.99	“ ⏎”“⏎”“ ⏎⏎”
10. L9N5409+1💤	0.99	“⏎⏎”“<\|im_end\|>”“⏎”

Shadow specimen, apart from the ten: L12N932+1🕒, 0.84.

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 932, dose -1. This specimen has no prompt-suite replies yet. Its quick-scan results, when available, appear below. Its quick-scan row (KL 0.62, top-1 agreement 0.69) 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
L12N932+1🕒 shadow specimen t0-v0.1	1.255	0.59	1.549	1.48	“⏎”“?\”“<\|im_end\|>”“\n”“ info”“ ⏎”“⏎ ⏎”“ ⏎”
L12N932-1 t0-v0.1	0.616	0.69	0.801	1.10	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.