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Specimen ledger / L27N3679-1

Layer 27 · Neuron 3679 · suppressed

L27N3679-1

Word quirks:

“向”“向来”“jos”“向学生”“向她”“向他们”“atl”“向日”

🧪 In testing — Answered 0 of 8 prompts so far.

Identity (according to the specimen itself)

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The AI judge wasn't sure this holds together.

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. L30N6663+1💤0.90“向”“向世界”“向学生”
2. L25N4955-1🕒0.89“向”“往”“地向”
3. L31N7951+1💥0.88“向”“接触”“影响到”
4. L29N8631-1🕒0.88“向”“宣”“向中国”
5. L31N4515+1💥0.86“向”“向其”“要向”
6. L26N8665-1🕒0.85“向”“向前”“要向”
7. L27N6810+1🕒0.85“向”“要向”“ toward”
8. L23N8011+1🕒0.85“要向”“地向”“向”
9. L27N3093-1🕒0.85“向”“向中国”“ Presence”
10. L27N7468-1💤0.82“入”“向”“破”

Shadow specimen, apart from the ten: L27N3679+1💤, -0.07.

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 27, neuron 3679, dose -1. This specimen has no prompt-suite replies yet. Its quick-scan results, when available, appear below. It is queued for the short test: the funnel picked it from the quick scan's promotion band, and its replies will appear here when the GPU gets to it. 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
L27N3679+1💤 shadow specimen
t0-v0.1
0.3160.790.3581.26 “cont”“{*”“ haus”“orida”“Pale”“urna”“ deposited”“ nú”
L27N3679-1
t0-v0.1
1.9290.611.9885.02 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.