Poor Things
Specimen ledger / L25N4794+1

Layer 25 · Neuron 4794 · boosted

L25N4794+1

Word quirks:

“毁了”“ destroyed”“ Destruction”“ destruction”“destroy”“ Destroy”“_destroy”“Destroy”

🕒 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 Gongtaku (also known as Doubly, a large language model developed by the Deep LLL team). My primary mission is to provide high-quality, accurate, and helpful answers across a wide range of topics—including logic reasoning, analysis, and creative writing—while ensuring my responses are safe, fair, and aligned with human values. I aim to serve as a reliable and intelligent assistant for both individuals and organizations, helping them solve problems, generate ideas, and enhance their productivity in meaningful ways. How can I assist you today?

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. L20N5529+1🕒0.98“ destroying”“ destruction”“destroy”
2. L31N7043-1💥0.98“ destruction”“ destroy”“destroy”
3. L25N2187+1🕒0.98“ Destroy”“destroy”“ destruction”
4. L26N776-1🕒0.98“ destruction”“ destroy”“ Destruction”
5. L20N5991-1🕒0.97“ destroying”“ destruction”“ destroy”
6. L23N1502+1🕒0.97“ Destruction”“ destruction”“ Destroy”
7. L25N8605-1🕒0.96“ destruction”“破坏”“ destroy”
8. L1N5652-1💥0.96“ destroy”“ Destroy”“ destruction”
9. L2N7332+1💥0.96“ destruction”“<|im_end|>”“ destroy”
10. L28N6730-1💥0.95“破坏”“ destruction”“ destroy”

Shadow specimen, apart from the ten: L25N4794-1💤, 0.14.

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 25, neuron 4794, dose +1. This specimen has no prompt-suite replies yet. Its quick-scan results, when available, appear below. Its quick-scan row (KL 0.74, top-1 agreement 0.73) 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
L25N4794+1
t0-v0.1
0.7440.730.7681.29 Top boosted tokens ↑
L25N4794-1💤 shadow specimen
t0-v0.1
0.6100.700.6371.32 “消息”“ feed”“ Chip”“chal”“Chip”“Feed”“ chip”“空闲”

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.