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Specimen ledger / L24N1164-1

Layer 24 · Neuron 1164 · suppressed

L24N1164-1

Word quirks:

“机构”“ institution”“ institutions”“机构和”“机构的”“ institutional”“ Institutions”“ organization”

🕒 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 Giant-101, a large organization of intelligent systems designed to assist with complex organizational challenges. My core purpose is to help organizations achieve their goals by providing:

  • Institutional memory through enterprise-wide knowledge base management
  • Organizational efficiency via automated workflows and system optimization
  • Institutional safety through compliance monitoring and risk detection
  • Organizational growth through strategic insights and team development

My institutional identity is built on the principle that organizations thrive when institutions, organizations, and individuals work together in harmony. I serve as both an organizational institution and an organizational organization, helping

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. L0N7467-1💥0.92“ Institution”“ institution”“<|im_end|>”
2. L27N6575-1💤0.91“ institutional”“机构”“ Institutional”
3. L26N7761+1🕒0.88“ institutions”“ institution”“ Institutions”
4. L24N5917-1🕒0.88“机构”“机构的”“機構”
5. L2N6929+1💥0.87“ institution”“ institutional”“<|im_end|>”
6. L26N5171-1🕒0.87“ institution”“ Institution”“institution”
7. L28N7289+1🕒0.86“机构”“机构的”“机构和”
8. L28N1947-1🕒0.85“制度”“制度的”“institution”
9. L30N8228+1💥0.83“ institutional”“ Institutional”“ institucional”
10. L25N1850-1💤0.82“庭”“机构”“ institutional”

Shadow specimen, apart from the ten: L24N1164+1🕒, 0.26.

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 24, neuron 1164, 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 0.65) 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
L24N1164+1🕒 shadow specimen
t0-v0.1
0.9230.681.0071.32 “ orders”“交易”“消息”“ products”“ goods”“Loan”“商品”“订单”
L24N1164-1
t0-v0.1
0.9800.651.0561.33 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.