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    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.
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    OpenAI
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    https://github.com/hijohnnylin/automated-interpretability
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    Default prompts from the main branch, strategy TokenActivationPair.
    Recent Explanations
    The neuron is essentially inactive and does not respond to any token—it finds nothing.
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     in its pathogenesis, namely, serotonin, glutamate, nore
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    INDEX 68877
    The neuron detects long runs of whitespace (indention) in code.
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     enumMapper() {↵        EnumMapper enumMapper =
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    INDEX 75628
    The neuron lights up on general-purpose discourse or stance markers—common evaluative or filler words and phrases like “OK,” “fine,” “absolutely,” “that,” “it,” and “was.”
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    .↵↵And that is OK
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    INDEX 1729
    The neuron fires on technical terms referring to optical or color‐spectral properties (e.g. spectral characteristics, color filters, wavelengths, colored light).
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     are generally provided with spectral filters for the three colors,
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    INDEX 59871
    The neuron responds to comparative constructions (e.g. “as … as”, “more … than”) that set up an explicit comparison between two items.
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     to sickness are as important as schemes designed
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    INDEX 47558
    The neuron fires on numeric literals (tokens composed of digits, with or without decimal point) such as integer or floating-point constants.
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     ContainerType<?> p_i50105
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    INDEX 110582
    The neuron strongly activates on numeric quantity expressions—especially proportions or percentages (e.g. “half,” “two-thirds,” “%” and similar fraction/percentage tokens).
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     quit smoking and more than half make an attempt every year
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    INDEX 20339
    The neuron is detecting numeric literals (numbers, including integers and decimals) in code.
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    1_, int p_i50105
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    INDEX 61401
    The neuron fires on uncommon or domain‐specific tokens—mostly proper names and specialized technical terms.
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     only for clarity. The chromaprint_get_version
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    INDEX 66108
    The neuron strongly activates on rare or specialized subword fragments—e.g. capitalized proper‐name pieces (Paul, Drag, Race), scientific or taxonomic roots and suffixes (arthro–, –pod, –phyletic, –gram, –dagram), and other low-frequency technical morphemes—so overall it’s looking for uncommon or technical subword units.
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     of this series of RuPaul's Drag Race UK
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    INDEX 71183
    The neuron fires on sentence-initial coordinating conjunctions—especially “And” and “But” that start a new clause or paragraph.
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     so much energy.”↵↵And instead of apologising to
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    INDEX 119915
    The neuron is triggered by React Router route‐configuration tokens (e.g. “Route,” “path,” “history,” “exact,” “Router,” “replace,” etc.).
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          <Route path="/" exact component={HomePage} />
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    INDEX 105912
    The neuron selectively activates on numeric tokens (especially measurements and decimal numbers) in the text.
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     hide. Scrolling  is on the full screen.
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    INDEX 119474
    The neuron fires on capitalized identifiers and type names (e.g. class or data‐structure names) in code.
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    > strCollection = new LinkedList<>();↵        for (
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    INDEX 87319
    The neuron strongly activates on question-sentence markers—i.e. on question words and their “?” punctuation.
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    ↵↵What is it?↵↵It's a project
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    INDEX 70853
    The neuron detects occurrences of the word “difficulty.”
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    als;↵    int difficulty;↵↵    printf("
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    INDEX 23953
    The neuron strongly activates on the preposition “of.”
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    ↵↵A Council Tax discount of 25% is
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    INDEX 90378
    The neuron activates on technical terms for rotating‐shaft mechanical devices (e.g. “tachometer,” “auger”).
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     and (3) a tachometer generator. The three
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    INDEX 124672
    The neuron detects capitalized identifiers and proper nouns—such as class or type names, author names, and scientific or product names.
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    import java.io.PrintWriter;↵import java.
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    INDEX 72945
    The neuron fires on occurrences of the literal token “Default.”
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    pomexplorer.DefaultPomFileLoader;↵
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    INDEX 65093