Poor Things
Specimen ledger / L27N9085+1

Layer 27 · Neuron 9085 · boosted

L27N9085+1

Word quirks:

“清洁”“ cleaning”“ cleaner”“ Cleaning”“Cleaning”“ Cleaner”“ clean”“ CLEAN”

🕒 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 Q*(Q), a large language cleaning and cleaning model developed by *cleaning (cleaning) in 2025. My core mission is to provide clean, clean, and clean cleaning services to users worldwide. I aim to clean up the cleaning process, clean up the cleaning experience, and clean up the cleaning results.

If you have any cleaning-related questions or need cleaning assistance, please clean up and let me know!

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. L19N5127-1💤0.99“ cleaning”“ cleaner”“ Cleaning”
2. L25N3622-1🕒0.98“ cleaning”“清洁”“ clean”
3. L26N5828-1🕒0.98“Cleaning”“ Cleaning”“ cleaning”
4. L24N7366-1🕒0.96“清洁”“ clean”“ cleaning”
5. L5N7823-1🕒0.96“ cleanliness”“ clean”“ cleaned”
6. L23N1495-1🕒0.95“ cleaned”“ clean”“清洗”
7. L7N8731-1🕒0.95“ cleaning”“ cleaned”“ cleaner”
8. L30N819-1💥0.95“ clean”“ Clean”“clean”
9. L20N4778-1🕒0.95“ cleans”“ cleaned”“ discharged”
10. L20N3651+1🕒0.95“ cleaner”“ Cleaner”“ clutter”

Shadow specimen, apart from the ten: L27N9085-1💤, 0.00.

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 9085, dose +1. This specimen has no prompt-suite replies yet. Its quick-scan results, when available, appear below. Its quick-scan row (KL 0.90, top-1 agreement 0.64) 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
L27N9085+1
t0-v0.1
0.9040.640.9651.36 Top boosted tokens ↑
L27N9085-1💤 shadow specimen
t0-v0.1
0.3150.800.3261.23 “BU”“/www”“充分”“скар”“ucc”“/U”“太上”“充分的”

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.