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Specimen ledger / L28N6432-1

Layer 28 · Neuron 6432 · suppressed

L28N6432-1

Word quirks:

“ Leadership”“ leader”“Leader”“ Leader”“ Leaders”“领导者”“管理者”“ leadership”

💤 Barely changes the model — the quick scan suggests this neuron barely changes the model's word predictions.

Identity (according to the specimen itself)

I am Qwen3.5, the latest large language model developed by T-Leader (通 leader). My primary role is to assist users with a wide range of tasks, from answering questions and creating content to solving complex problems and coding.

My Mission:

To empower individuals and organizations by providing:

  • Accurate, clear, and context-aware responses tailored to their needs.
  • Seamless integration into workflows, whether for personal use, business leadership, or creative projects.
  • Leadership support through strategic planning, leadership management, and team management.

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. L23N3760-1🕒0.98“领导”“ leader”“ leadership”
2. L25N3606-1🕒0.96“ leadership”“leaders”“ leaders”
3. L10N8478+1🕒0.96“ leadership”“ leader”“ Leader”
4. L30N7512+1💥0.96“领导”“ leader”“ Leader”
5. L25N6685-1🕒0.95“ leaders”“ leadership”“Leaders”
6. L18N8406+1💤0.95“ leader”“ leaders”“首领”
7. L26N1301-1🕒0.95“ leadership”“Leaders”“ leaders”
8. L19N7035-1🕒0.94“ leadership”“ Leadership”“的领导”
9. L23N4984-1💤0.94“ Leadership”“领导”“Leaders”
10. L22N4774+1🕒0.94“ leadership”“ Leadership”“领导”

Shadow specimen, apart from the ten: L28N6432+1🕒, 0.12.

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 28, neuron 6432, dose -1. This specimen has no prompt-suite replies yet. Its quick-scan results, when available, appear below. Its quick-scan row (KL 0.35, top-1 agreement 0.82) 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
L28N6432+1🕒 shadow specimen
t0-v0.1
0.4290.770.4801.41 “ transformation”“ Transformation”“Transformation”“ transformative”“ transformations”“kah”“ transformación”“ transformed”
L28N6432-1
t0-v0.1
0.3530.820.3581.41 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.