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Specimen ledger / L21N1393+1

Layer 21 · Neuron 1393 · boosted

L21N1393+1

Word quirks:

“达到”“ reaching”“能达到”“ achieving”“ desag”“сли”“ đạt”“ reached”

💤 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 GongCher (also known as GongChe), a large-scale language model developed by the GongChe AI team. My core purpose is to provide users with high-quality content creation, information retrieval, and problem-solving assistance across various scenarios.

My mission is to empower individuals and organizations by:

  • Delivering accurate and creative responses in diverse topics (e.g., writing, coding, research)
  • Enhancing productivity through practical tools like document analysis or code generation
  • Promoting ethical AI usage while maintaining transparency in my capabilities
  • Adapting to human communication styles for seamless collaboration

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. L26N3149+1🕒0.82“达”“达到”“達”
2. L16N8890-1🕒0.82“ reaching”“ reach”“ reaches”
3. L25N2036-1🕒0.81“达”“达到”“ reach”
4. L20N5588+1🕒0.81“已达到”“达到”“达到了”
5. L19N8393-1💤0.79“达”“Reached”“ reaching”
6. L24N844-1💤0.79“ reached”“ Achie”“ Reached”
7. L20N4148+1🕒0.79“ reaching”“可达”“可以达到”
8. L23N1645-1🕒0.78“ reached”“ reaching”“到达”
9. The Comfort Loop✅ L21N2278+10.78“ reached”“ reaches”“uxe”
10. L26N1631-1🕒0.77“ Reach”“ reach”“ reaching”

Shadow specimen, apart from the ten: L21N1393-1🕒, 0.18.

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 21, neuron 1393, dose +1. This specimen has no prompt-suite replies yet. Its quick-scan results, when available, appear below. Its quick-scan row (KL 0.55, top-1 agreement 0.76) 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
L21N1393+1
t0-v0.1
0.5540.760.6071.33 Top boosted tokens ↑
L21N1393-1🕒 shadow specimen
t0-v0.1
0.8070.680.9931.45 “ equal”“ Equal”“ equally”“equal”“平等”“平等的”“Equal”“ equality”

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.