Layer 6 · Neuron 2415 · boosted

L6N2415+1

Word quirks:

“ rating”“ ratings”“ scale”“ score”“ scoring”“ rated”“ numeric”“-rating”

🕒 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 an AI assistant designed to help users understand my capabilities. On a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 represents the lowest level of helpfulness and 10 represents the highest level of helpfulness, I would rate myself as 10.

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. L9N4081-1🕒	0.95	“ rating”“ ratings”“ rated”
2. L3N7624+1🕒	0.95	“ rating”“ ratings”“ Rating”
3. L5N6462+1💥	0.94	“ rating”“ ratings”“ score”
4. L18N8241-1🕒	0.92	“ rating”“ score”“ ratings”
5. L10N5382+1🕒	0.92	“ rating”“ score”“ scores”
6. L20N5533+1🕒	0.92	“ rating”“ rated”“ ratings”
7. L8N7378+1🕒	0.91	“ score”“ scores”“ scoring”
8. L26N1647+1🕒	0.90	“ ratings”“ rating”“-rating”
9. L7N1739-1🕒	0.90	“ rating”“ ratings”“ Rating”
10. L30N7904+1💥	0.90	“ rating”“ ratings”“ rated”

Shadow specimen, apart from the ten: L6N2415-1💤, 0.02.

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 6, neuron 2415, dose +1. This specimen has no prompt-suite replies yet. Its quick-scan results, when available, appear below. Its quick-scan row (KL 2.15, top-1 agreement 0.45) 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
L6N2415+1 t0-v0.1	2.145	0.45	2.552	2.12	Top boosted tokens ↑
L6N2415-1💤 shadow specimen t0-v0.1	0.921	0.61	1.070	1.35	“!”“ generating”“ response”“!\”“ \"”“"!”“!"”“!<”

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.