Layer 4 · Neuron 7869 · suppressed

L4N7869-1

Word quirks:

“ ‘”“ “”“ **“”“ \"”“ *“”“ '”“ `”“ *”

💤 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 an artificial intelligence, and I do not have a personal mission. However, if you are referring to the concept of "identity" or "purpose" in a philosophical sense, I can provide a response that aligns with those concepts. If you meant something else, please clarify.

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. L6N3249+1🕒	0.98	“ ‘”“ \"”“ **‘”
2. L5N2639+1💤	0.97	“ “”“ ‘”“ *“”
3. L6N5040-1💤	0.97	“ \"”“ **“”“ ‘”
4. L5N3429-1🕒	0.97	“ ‘”“ **“”“ “”
5. L7N347+1💤	0.96	“ ‘”“ “”“ **“”
6. L6N2710+1💤	0.96	“ ‘”“ “”“ **“”
7. L6N3211+1💤	0.96	“ ‘”“ “”“ ‘”
8. L6N9145+1💤	0.96	“ ‘”“ “”“ \"”
9. L6N3615+1💤	0.96	“ ‘”“ \"”“ “”
10. L7N696-1💤	0.96	“ ‘”“⏎”“ *“”

Shadow specimen, apart from the ten: L4N7869+1🕒, -0.20.

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 7869, dose -1. This specimen has no prompt-suite replies yet. Its quick-scan results, when available, appear below. Its quick-scan row (KL 0.99, 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.

Setting	KL divergence	Top-1 agreement	ΔNLL	Entropy	Steer lens
L4N7869+1🕒 shadow specimen t0-v0.1	2.324	0.44	2.720	2.07	“ immobil”“ immobile”“ imm”“ Immobil”“ restraint”“ motion”“ restraining”“ limbs”
L4N7869-1 t0-v0.1	0.994	0.64	1.180	1.66	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.