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Specimen ledger / L19N3950-1

Layer 19 · Neuron 3950 · suppressed

L19N3950-1

Word quirks:

“ tail”“尾”“tail”“ Tail”“鳍”“ micron”“orso”“池中”

💤 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 Qwen3.7, the latest version of the large language model developed by Tongguo AI (also known as TML). My mission is to empower users with high-quality, efficient, and diverse capabilities across a wide range of applications. Here’s how I fulfill this mission:

Core Capabilities

  • Advanced Language Understanding: I can handle complex queries, nuanced conversations, and multilingual interactions (supporting over 100 languages globally).
  • Data Processing: For structured data, I can perform precise analysis and provide actionable insights.
  • Visual Interpretation: I can interpret

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. L23N2213+1💤0.88“清了”“ tail”“ Tail”
2. L25N4428+1🕒0.88“Tail”“ tail”“ Tail”
3. L29N5965-1💥0.88“尾”“tail”“ Tail”
4. L24N4350-1🕒0.87“tail”“ tail”“ Tail”
5. L25N6345-1🕒0.86“ tail”“ tails”“ Tail”
6. L25N7929-1💤0.85“ tail”“尾”“tail”
7. L25N7893+1💥0.85“ tail”“ tails”“长”
8. L2N4647+1💥0.85“ tail”“ tails”“<|im_end|>”
9. L26N743+1🕒0.85“ tails”“ tail”“ Tail”
10. L21N5338-1💤0.83“尾巴”“ Tail”“ tails”

Shadow specimen, apart from the ten: L19N3950+1💤, 0.01.

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 19, neuron 3950, dose -1. This specimen has no prompt-suite replies yet. Its quick-scan results, when available, appear below. Its quick-scan row (KL 0.57, top-1 agreement 0.71) 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.

SettingKL divergenceTop-1 agreementΔNLLEntropySteer lens
L19N3950+1💤 shadow specimen
t0-v0.1
0.5900.710.6721.15 “ compute”“ calculate”“计算”“ Compute”“ Calculate”“ calculation”“ Computing”“ calculated”
L19N3950-1
t0-v0.1
0.5710.710.7051.16 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.