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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.
    Author
    OpenAI
    URL
    https://github.com/hijohnnylin/automated-interpretability
    Settings
    Default prompts from the main branch, strategy TokenActivationPair. Uses top 10 deduplicated activations.
    Recent Explanations
    enumerations of snack foods presented as example lists, especially following an introductory phrase and joined by commas and a conjunction.
    gpt-5
    treats, such as chips, candy, and cookies.\n
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    LLAMA3.3-70B-IT
    50-RESID-POST-GF
    INDEX 63166
    Sentences and phrases about personal growth, therapy, healing, and emotional support—self-help / counselling language focused on feelings, confidence, choices, and recovery.
    gpt-5-mini
    voice so that you can make clear decisions?↵↵Welcome!
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    QWEN3-32B
    32-RESID-BATCHTOPK-65K
    INDEX 2728
    The neuron detects vivid, poetic/lyrical language—emotionally charged descriptive imagery and rhetorical, metaphorical phrasing.
    gpt-5-mini
    home, you say But home isn't stony chunks
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    QWEN3-32B
    32-RESID-BATCHTOPK-65K
    INDEX 27900
    words and phrases expressing brokenness, loss, and painful/heartbroken memories.
    gpt-5-mini
    fromthose painful days.Lost in darkness from the painful
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    QWEN3-32B
    32-RESID-BATCHTOPK-65K
    INDEX 9317
    The neuron lights up on action and stance words—main verbs, auxiliaries, and negations that signal commands, judgments, or emphatic assertions.
    gpt-5-mini
    's done. But do not take the life of a
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    32-RESID-BATCHTOPK-65K
    INDEX 7228
    The neuron detects numeric year/date tokens (digits that mark years or dates in text).
    gpt-5-mini
    to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film
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    QWEN3-32B
    32-RESID-BATCHTOPK-65K
    INDEX 20775
    It detects the main topic or subject words in question titles/headers—concise nouns or technical keywords that name what the question is about.
    gpt-5-mini
    currency symbol is to the left or right of the price
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    32-RESID-BATCHTOPK-65K
    INDEX 37370
    words that signal strong subjective emphasis or novelty (emotive/adjective or adverbial hype like "new", "magically", "never-before-seen", or other high-intensity descriptors).
    gpt-5-mini
    collection. It will not magically add brand new, never
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    32-RESID-BATCHTOPK-65K
    INDEX 31218
    The neuron detects personal references — pronouns and possessives that point to people or groups (e.g., I, you, we, they, our, their, us).
    gpt-5-mini
    wellbeing, regardless of whether we may have a lived experience
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    32-RESID-BATCHTOPK-65K
    INDEX 21977
    sentences or fragments from legal, copyright, licensing, or policy/disclaimer text (formal legal wording).
    gpt-5-mini
    external organisation or party; nor to use behavioural analysis for
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    QWEN3-32B
    32-RESID-BATCHTOPK-65K
    INDEX 18382
    words describing coping behaviors, maladaptive responses, and symptoms related to trauma/mental health.
    gpt-5-mini
    other activities, and using humor. In contrast, female
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    QWEN3-32B
    32-RESID-BATCHTOPK-65K
    INDEX 49180
    Medical and health-related content — especially disease names, symptoms, treatments, and preventive-care information.
    gpt-5-mini
    is a test for the presence of a parasite or worm
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    QWEN3-32B
    32-RESID-BATCHTOPK-65K
    INDEX 62391
    The neuron detects explanatory/encyclopedic phrasing that describes what something is used for or how it functions (phrases about use, purpose, interaction, or tasks).
    gpt-5-mini
    interact with one another and with other systems to perform various
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    32-RESID-BATCHTOPK-65K
    INDEX 51972
    medical and biomedical terms—diseases, anatomical sites, proteins, pathogens, and related clinical/pathology vocabulary.
    gpt-5-mini
    by engineered cytochrome P450 enzymes.↵
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    32-RESID-BATCHTOPK-65K
    INDEX 57573
    Boilerplate legal/administrative text—section headings and sentences from terms, privacy, cookies, policies, and other formal notices.
    gpt-5-mini
    that person from further participation. So please, just remember
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    QWEN3-32B
    32-RESID-BATCHTOPK-65K
    INDEX 56177
    The neuron detects language about assessing, evaluating, or determining whether something meets requirements or provides sufficient assurance.
    gpt-5-mini
    each of these reports to determine whether the agency has reasonable
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    QWEN3-32B
    32-RESID-BATCHTOPK-65K
    INDEX 51840
    tokens that carry topical or content meaning (important nouns, verbs, and other informative words).
    gpt-5-mini
    and mathematics. The importance of French culture has waxed
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    QWEN3-32B
    32-RESID-BATCHTOPK-65K
    INDEX 33844
    the neuron detects past-tense narrative language — verbs and markers used when recounting personal experiences.
    gpt-5-mini
    surprise, Arden was definitely the exception to the rule
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    32-RESID-BATCHTOPK-65K
    INDEX 4493
    The neuron detects words and tokens that indicate complex, systemic, or large‑scale/technical concepts (academic or scientific discourse vocabulary).
    gpt-5-mini
    a complex phenomenon that extends beyond the person level to multiple
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    32-RESID-BATCHTOPK-65K
    INDEX 2377
    words describing trends of growth, expansion, or increasing prevalence over time.
    claude-4-5-haiku
    a complex phenomenon that extends beyond the person level to multiple
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    32-RESID-BATCHTOPK-65K
    INDEX 2377