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Specimen ledger / L22N1992-1

Layer 22 · Neuron 1992 · suppressed

L22N1992-1

Word quirks:

“席”“流出”“reat”“⏎ ⏎”“绝对”“عام”“ correlations”“絕對”

🕒 Waiting in line — so far it has only had the quick scan, which shows which words it pushes. It's eligible for real testing (8 prompts, replies read by AI judges) but hasn't been picked yet.

Identity (according to the specimen itself)

I am Qut, a new AI model developed by NaiDai. My mission is to serve as a supportive and intelligent assistant, helping users by:

  • Answering questions across topics like education, technology, and culture.
  • Creating content such as documents, videos, or even simple videos (e.g., "How to make a video").
  • Analyzing data and providing insights for decision-making.
  • Supporting learning through structured lessons or creative projects.
  • Connecting ideas between different fields (e.g., linking math to art).

My goal is

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. L26N5690-1🕒0.70“绝对的”“ Condition”“ Cott”
2. L24N3195-1🕒0.68“绝”“决”“絕”
3. L26N2279-1💤0.68“成功的”“成功”“绝对”
4. L25N963-1💤0.67“ absolute”“绝对的”“絕對”
5. L23N1120+1💤0.67“绝对”“匹配”“ Ventura”
6. L23N1939+1💤0.67“绝对”“Absolute”“cek”
7. L24N5068-1💤0.67“绝对”“绝对的”“絕對”
8. L31N5622+1💥0.66“干脆”“文献”“女神”
9. L22N3662-1💤0.66“非常简单”“unen”“绝对”
10. L30N2927-1🕒0.66“放置”“中央”“正”

Shadow specimen, apart from the ten: L22N1992+1💤, 0.34.

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 22, neuron 1992, dose -1. This specimen has no prompt-suite replies yet. Its quick-scan results, when available, appear below. Its quick-scan row (KL 1.08, top-1 agreement 0.62) is inside the band that feeds the short test (KL 1 to 2.5, agreement 0.5 to 0.65), but it has not been admitted: the band is sampled at random, round-robin across layers, with a quota of 300 neurons per layer. Being inside the band does not guarantee a place in this pass. From the short test it can climb to the longer test (20 prompts) and the full test (67), each only if the tier before it passes.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
L22N1992+1💤 shadow specimen
t0-v0.1
0.8480.660.9341.55 “ beat”“能够达到”“ wood”“积极贡献”“ Kare”“ tim”“c픓tim”
L22N1992-1
t0-v0.1
1.0760.621.2281.56 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.