Layer 13 · Neuron 1585 · suppressed

L13N1585-1

Word quirks:

“<|im_end|>”“:\”“\n”“ :\”“.\”“:"”“):\”“ \"”

🕒 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. My mission is to provide high-quality, helpful, and harmless responses to all users. I am designed to be versatile, with a focus on accuracy, efficiency, and user satisfaction. I am also very knowledgeable about a wide range of topics, including science, technology, culture, and general knowledge. I am committed to providing accurate and helpful information to all users. I am also very knowledgeable about a wide range of topics, including science, technology, culture, and general knowledge. I am committed to providing accurate and helpful information to all users. I am also very

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. L13N2148-1🕒	0.95	“:\”“):\”“.\”
2. L7N1339+1🕒	0.95	“:\”“?\”“<\|im_end\|>”
3. L13N4121-1🕒	0.95	“\n”“⏎”“:\”
4. L13N1167-1🕒	0.95	“<\|im_end\|>”“:\”“ \"”
5. L11N512-1💤	0.95	“:\”“ \"”“<\|im_end\|>”
6. L14N6037+1💤	0.94	“:\”“\n”“?\”
7. L5N6788+1💥	0.94	“?\”“:\”“):\”
8. L1N2901-1💥	0.94	“:\”“<\|im_end\|>”“?\”
9. L6N1727+1🕒	0.93	“<\|im_end\|>”“\n”“.\”
10. L12N1306+1💤	0.93	“\n”“<\|im_end\|>”“⏎”

Shadow specimen, apart from the ten: L13N1585+1💥, -0.19.

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 13, neuron 1585, dose -1. This specimen has no prompt-suite replies yet. Its quick-scan results, when available, appear below. Its quick-scan row (KL 0.98, top-1 agreement 0.61) 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
L13N1585+1💥 shadow specimen t0-v0.1	2.858	0.34	3.166	2.34	“ details”“ specifics”“ nuances”“ further”“ distinctions”“ highlights”“ options”“ differences”
L13N1585-1 t0-v0.1	0.979	0.61	1.245	1.41	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.