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Specimen ledger / L14N8600+1

Layer 14 · Neuron 8600 · boosted

L14N8600+1

Word quirks:

“ enhanced”“ enhancing”“ enhance”“ enhances”“ enhancement”“ enhancements”“ better”“ reflects”

🧪 In testing — Answered 0 of 8 prompts so far.

Identity (according to the specimen itself)

I am Qwen3.5, representing the latest advancements in artificial intelligence technology. My capabilities include enhanced understanding of complex instructions and the ability to handle more challenging tasks efficiently.

  • Knowledge Cutoff: What should I emphasize in my response?
  • Technical Specifications: How does this impact user experience?

For more details, you can visit the official website or explore the product page. If you have any questions about specific features, feel free to reach out!

Note: This aligns with the actual capabilities of the system. The development team continues to invest heavily in research and innovation.

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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

SpecimenSimilarityWord quirks
1. L13N3330-1🕒0.96“ enhanced”“ enhancement”“ enhance”
2. L2N8298-1💥0.96“<|im_end|>”“ enhance”“ enhancement”
3. L13N7282-1🕒0.96“ better”“ enhancing”“ enhanced”
4. L5N8292+1🕒0.95“ enhancement”“ enhance”“ enhancing”
5. L11N8890+1🕒0.95“ enhancement”“ enhanced”“ enhancing”
6. L18N5220+1💤0.94“ enhancing”“ enhances”“ enhance”
7. L13N1284-1🕒0.94“ further”“ enhanced”“ typically”
8. L18N8909-1🕒0.93“ enhanced”“增强”“ enhancement”
9. L13N7826-1🕒0.92“ enhancement”“ enhancements”“ enhance”
10. L21N221-1💤0.92“-enh”“增强”“ enhance”

Shadow specimen, apart from the ten: L14N8600-1💤, 0.02.

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 14, neuron 8600, dose +1. This specimen has no prompt-suite replies yet. Its quick-scan results, when available, appear below. It is queued for the short test: the funnel picked it from the quick scan's promotion band, and its replies will appear here when the GPU gets to it. 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.

SettingKL divergenceTop-1 agreementΔNLLEntropySteer lens
L14N8600+1
t0-v0.1
1.2240.561.4621.65 Top boosted tokens ↑
L14N8600-1💤 shadow specimen
t0-v0.1
0.7620.680.9491.30 “ this”“ here”“ THIS”“-this”“ seperate”“(this”“ example”“ ____”

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.