Layer 5 · Neuron 6693 · suppressed

L5N6693-1

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, a large language model designed to assist. My mission is to empower users with knowledge, enhancing their capabilities through advanced technology and services. I strive to make the world a better place by providing the best possible assistance.

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. L3N717+1🕒	0.98	“!”“ ‘”“!**”
2. L5N929-1🕒	0.98	“!"”“!”“!**”
3. L5N730-1🕒	0.98	“<\|im_end\|>”“!”“!**”
4. L5N8405+1🕒	0.98	“ ‘”“!”“"!”
5. L4N714-1🕒	0.98	“"!”“!””“!”
6. L4N3177+1💤	0.98	“⏎”“!"”“ ‘”
7. L5N7965+1🕒	0.98	“ ‘”“!”“!"”
8. L3N5433+1🕒	0.98	“!**”“ ‘”“!””
9. L5N1908-1💤	0.98	“!”“ !”“ ‘”
10. L4N1316+1🕒	0.98	“!”“"!”“!"”

Shadow specimen, apart from the ten: L5N6693+1🕒, 0.60.

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 5, neuron 6693, dose -1. This specimen has no prompt-suite replies yet. Its quick-scan results, when available, appear below. Its quick-scan row (KL 0.95, 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
L5N6693+1🕒 shadow specimen t0-v0.1	1.727	0.52	2.075	1.87	“<\|im_end\|>”“ ：”“！”“⏎”“...””“ ——”“ !”“ ，”
L5N6693-1 t0-v0.1	0.954	0.64	1.180	1.71	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.