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    EXPLANATION TYPE
    oai_token-act-pair
    Description
    OpenAI's Automated Interpretability from paper "Language models can explain neurons in language models". Modified by Johnny Lin to add new models/context windows.
    Author
    OpenAI
    URL
    https://github.com/hijohnnylin/automated-interpretability
    Settings
    Default prompts from the main branch, strategy TokenActivationPair.
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    news-style political/official reporting, especially proper names of people/places/institutions, titles/ranks, dates/numbers, and quoted attributions in statements.
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     March 2, 2020 General and
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    INDEX 7269
    high-frequency function words that serve as grammatical glue—prepositions, determiners, pronouns, and auxiliary/modals that link phrases and mark relationships.
    gpt-5
     computer is a device capable of solving problems by processing information
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    INDEX 3851
    direct quotations in text, especially the opening/closing quote marks and nearby words in reported speech.
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     up shop here.↵↵“The financial slowdown has eaten
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    INDEX 13953
    specialized scientific and engineering jargon—especially acronyms, materials, and components from electronics and molecular biology procedures.
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     outputting routes of the driving integrated circuit, the more
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    INDEX 10297
    biomedical health-effects language, especially terms about immune function, diseases/pathogens, and therapeutic impacts on inflammation and blood lipids.
    gpt-5
     Often thought to merely support normal bowel function and blood glucose
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    LaTeX equation formatting and references in academic text, especially display-math delimiters, equation labels, and citation-style equation mentions.
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     system (\[fracODE\]) we use the coll
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    INDEX 2410
    specific, domain‑heavy nouns—especially concrete items, medical/anatomical terms, and profession/finance labels—often appearing in enumerations or technical lists.
    gpt-5
     examples of items consumed included wine and kava. The
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    INDEX 584
    boilerplate open-source license header text in code comments, especially Apache License 2.0 notices and disclaimers.
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    ↵ *  See the License for the specific language
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    assignments where a variable or object field is set to a value, especially member/property updates with “=”.
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     {↵    this.inputValue = value;↵  
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    INDEX 5231
    statements emphasizing absence or negation, especially negative-quantifier constructions asserting that nothing or none applies.
    gpt-5
    ↵        printf("\tNada se pode afirmar sobre suas
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    INDEX 14399
    mentions of athletes’ professional status and transactions, especially draft rounds/picks and rookie/second‑year designations in sports contexts.
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     was drafted in the third round (53rd overall
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    INDEX 15672
    mentions of programming library or framework identifiers, especially utility/helper classes and modules within code snippets.
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     pmf = JDOHelper.getPersistenceManagerFactory
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    INDEX 11873
    programming and technical notation, especially code-like syntax tokens, symbols, and all-caps identifiers.
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    -close",↵ h
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    INDEX 13052
    mentions of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, including its associated people, locations, historical events, and political arguments.
    gpt-5
     stealing from and ravaging Palestinian groves and with outpost settlers
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    INDEX 11931
    encyclopedic sci‑fi/fantasy character and faction backstory details—origins, roles/ranks, abilities/weapons, missions, and consequential events.
    gpt-5
    -combatant android designs developed by Tsurugi,
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    INDEX 14577
    closing parenthesis marks, especially when ending parenthetical acronyms or short explanatory phrases.
    gpt-5
     arterial pressure (MAP) dropped in group 2
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    INDEX 2303
    mentions of industries or sectors—references to professional/economic fields and related environments.
    gpt-5
     not-for-profit sectors.↵↵**Conflict of
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    INDEX 45
    content-heavy nouns (often technical) that denote concrete properties, positions, or roles in a description.
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     didn't found a phenotype for the mutants at the
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    section or bullet headings/titles—typically short, capitalized labels followed by punctuation (like colons or dashes) that introduce a new section or feature list.
    gpt-5
    Effect on Alcohol Use Outcomes*: Not measured*FOLLOW-
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    references to homicides and other violent crimes, especially in law-enforcement or legal-case contexts involving victims, charges, and proceedings.
    gpt-5
     during a police chase following Matute’s death.
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    INDEX 10696