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Specimen ledger / L27N7545-1

Layer 27 · Neuron 7545 · suppressed

L27N7545-1

Word quirks:

“ she”“She”“she”“ She”“/she”“ Shea”“lu”“她”

🕒 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 Qwen (also known as She in Chinese) is a large-scale language model developed by She (She) AI. I am designed to help users with various tasks such as answering questions, writing text, coding, and more.

My mission is to:

  1. Provide accurate and helpful information across diverse topics.
  2. Support creative and practical applications, from generating content to solving complex problems.
  3. Foston long-sehance interactions through clear, context-aware responses.
  4. Promongse (she) AI's potential to

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. L28N6518+1🕒0.96“ she”“ She”“she”
2. L25N5847-1🕒0.96“ she”“ She”“She”
3. L28N3086+1🕒0.96“ she”“ She”“.She”
4. L31N676-1💥0.96“ she”“ She”“she”
5. L28N7473-1💤0.95“ she”“she”“She”
6. L27N2563-1💤0.94“ shear”“"She”“ She”
7. L29N1040+1🕒0.93“ she”“she”“ она”
8. L26N3213+1💤0.92“ ona”“ shear”“ She”
9. L0N6229-1💥0.91“ she”“ She”“.She”
10. L25N1671+1🕒0.91“ she”“she”“ She”

Shadow specimen, apart from the ten: L27N7545+1🕒, 0.15.

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 7545, 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
L27N7545+1🕒 shadow specimen
t0-v0.1
0.5240.750.5611.34 “ ER”“ersi”“_er”“ Ér”“艾瑞”“ Er”“.er”“ W”
L27N7545-1
t0-v0.1
0.5540.760.5831.33 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.