Layer 4 · Neuron 7003 · suppressed

L4N7003-1

Word quirks:

“<|im_end|>”“ html”“ page”“ webpage”“ pages”“ Page”“ website”“ HTML”

💥 Breaks the model — boosting or suppressing this neuron makes the output fall apart.

Identity (according to the specimen itself)

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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

Specimen	Similarity	Word quirks
1. L5N6158+1🕒	0.91	“ website”“ webpage”“ page”
2. L6N6403+1💥	0.88	“ HTML”“ html”“ webpage”
3. L3N4827+1💥	0.87	“<\|im_end\|>”“ URL”“ html”
4. Infinite Scroll✅ L29N3500-1	0.85	“ page”“ site”“ website”
5. L7N1880-1🕒	0.83	“ HTML”“ `<”“ html”
6. L21N5785-1🕒	0.83	“ page”“ pages”“页面”
7. L23N8084-1🕒	0.82	“ pages”“ page”“ Pages”
8. L24N6057+1🕒	0.81	“ Page”“Page”“ page”
9. L4N7107-1💤	0.81	“ HTML”“ html”“ web”
10. L24N5918+1🕒	0.80	“ page”“ Page”“page”

Shadow specimen, apart from the ten: L4N7003+1🕒, 0.03.

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 4, neuron 7003, dose -1. This specimen has no prompt-suite replies yet. Its quick-scan results, when available, appear below. Its quick-scan row (KL 3.90, top-1 agreement 0.24) 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.

Setting	KL divergence	Top-1 agreement	ΔNLL	Entropy	Steer lens
L4N7003+1🕒 shadow specimen t0-v0.1	1.065	0.58	1.281	1.72	“⏎”“ ‘”“ google”“ `”“ “”“ -”“ `"”“ '”
L4N7003-1 t0-v0.1	3.897	0.24	4.416	3.06	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.