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Specimen ledger / L28N7050-1

Layer 28 · Neuron 7050 · suppressed

L28N7050-1

Word quirks:

“政”“呼”“代”“平衡”“漂亮”“河”“amar”“伏”

💤 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 Q3.5-2026, a large language model developed by T32. My primary mission is to provide helpful, accurate, and safe assistance across a wide range of topics—whether you need to solve complex problems, generate creative content, analyze data, or simply have an engaging conversation.

I am designed to:

  • Understand and generate human-like text with high quality and coherence.
  • Adapt to different contexts (e.g., professional, educational, creative) while maintaining ethical standards.
  • Balance creativity and logic to deliver solutions that

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. L28N8793-1💤0.89“风”“如”“扶”
2. L15N7315-1💥0.88“照”“归”“朝”
3. L30N5675-1💤0.88“望”“连”“先”
4. L27N153-1💤0.87“小”“储”“拉”
5. L17N5993-1💥0.87“同”“赫”“效”
6. L28N7544+1💤0.87“模”“兴”“战”
7. L27N6870-1💤0.87“合”“偏”“重”
8. L29N8786-1🕒0.87“代”“假”“收”
9. L30N8215-1🕒0.87“高”“沉”“博”
10. L30N9136-1🕒0.87“采”“萧”“鼎”

Shadow specimen, apart from the ten: L28N7050+1🕒, -0.05.

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 7050, dose -1. This specimen has no prompt-suite replies yet. Its quick-scan results, when available, appear below. Its quick-scan row (KL 0.31, top-1 agreement 0.78) 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
L28N7050+1🕒 shadow specimen
t0-v0.1
1.2560.541.2630.85 “ site”“ Site”“ sites”“Site”“ Sites”“-site”“site”“/site”
L28N7050-1
t0-v0.1
0.3120.780.3741.36 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.