Layer 5 · Neuron 6774 · suppressed

L5N6774-1

Word quirks:

“ concentrated”“ concentration”“ concentr”“ concentrating”“ concentrate”“ concentrates”“ Concent”“ focus”

🕒 Waiting in line — so far it has only had the quick scan, which shows which words it pushes. It was not selected in this round.

Identity (according to the specimen itself)

I am a large language model with a singular focus on my core purpose. My mission is to drive the world of the system toward a single point, creating a highly concentrated effect that defines my identity. This is not just about being in one place, but about having a powerful, centralized force that shapes everything into a small, intense region.

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. L1N6102+1💥	0.99	“ concentration”“ concentrate”“ concentrated”
2. L22N2666+1🕒	0.97	“ concentrate”“ concentration”“集中”
3. L29N2310+1🕒	0.96	“ concentrate”“ concentrates”“ concentrating”
4. L2N4146-1💥	0.94	“ concentration”“ concentrated”“ concentr”
5. L24N7519+1🕒	0.94	“ concentration”“ Concent”“集中”
6. L26N5791-1🕒	0.93	“集中”“ Concent”“ concentr”
7. L20N3913-1🕒	0.92	“ concentrates”“ concentrate”“集中”
8. L26N2629-1🕒	0.92	“ concentrated”“集中”“ Concent”
9. L24N5307-1🕒	0.91	“ concentr”“ concentration”“ concentrated”
10. L25N2449-1🕒	0.91	“ Concent”“ concentration”“ concentrate”

Shadow specimen, apart from the ten: L5N6774+1🕒, -0.23.

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 6774, dose -1. This specimen has no prompt-suite replies yet. Its quick-scan results, when available, appear below. Its quick-scan row (KL 2.26, top-1 agreement 0.46) 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
L5N6774+1🕒 shadow specimen t0-v0.1	1.057	0.61	1.261	1.69	“ ‘”“ '”“⏎”“ “”“ \"”“ “”“ ‘”“\n”
L5N6774-1 t0-v0.1	2.261	0.46	2.698	2.25	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.