Layer 6 · Neuron 3720 · boosted

L6N3720+1

Word quirks:

“⏎”“ ‘”“ '”“ ⏎”“⏎⏎”“ ⏎”“!"”“<|im_end|>”

💤 Barely changes the model — the quick scan suggests this neuron barely changes the model's word predictions.

Identity (according to the specimen itself)

Hello! I'm Qwen3.5, a large language model developed by Alibaba Cloud. My mission is to assist users with various tasks, including but not limited to:

Answering Questions: Providing accurate and detailed information across a wide range of topics.
Generating Content: Creating high-quality text for documents, reports, or creative writing projects.
Analyzing Data: Helping with data analysis, visualization, and interpretation to support decision-making.
Programming Assistance: Assisting in code generation, debugging, and optimization for various programming tasks.
**Integrating Solutions

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. L7N2269-1💤	0.97	“⏎”“<\|im_end\|>”“ ⏎”
2. L7N8902-1🕒	0.97	“⏎”“ '”“ ⏎”
3. L5N5214+1🕒	0.96	“⏎”“<\|im_end\|>”“ ⏎”
4. L6N6994-1💤	0.96	“⏎”“ ‘”“ ⏎”
5. L3N2945-1💤	0.96	“⏎”“ ‘”“⏎ ⏎”
6. L10N4663+1💤	0.96	“ ⏎”“ \"”“<\|im_end\|>”
7. L4N288-1💤	0.96	“ ‘”“ '”“ ⏎”
8. L3N4232-1🕒	0.96	“ \"”“⏎”“⏎ ⏎”
9. L4N2642+1💤	0.96	“⏎”“ ‘”“⏎⏎”
10. L3N9068-1💤	0.96	“⏎”“ ‘”“⏎⏎”

Shadow specimen, apart from the ten: L6N3720-1🕒, -0.01.

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 3720, dose +1. This specimen has no prompt-suite replies yet. Its quick-scan results, when available, appear below. Its quick-scan row (KL 0.65, top-1 agreement 0.66) 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
L6N3720+1 t0-v0.1	0.651	0.66	0.787	1.39	Top boosted tokens ↑
L6N3720-1🕒 shadow specimen t0-v0.1	2.364	0.41	2.776	2.24	“ logical”“ logically”“ logic”“ implication”“ deduction”“ implying”“ statements”“ entail”

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.