AI Neural Feature

Write vector

Vector written to the residual stream by a node

AI Neural Feature Notion

Safety relevant feature

Circuits Updates - July 2023

We report a number of developing ideas on the Anthropic interpretability team, which might be of interest to researchers working actively in this space. Some of these are emerging strands of research where we expect to publish more on in the coming months. Others are minor points we wish to share, since we're unlikely to ever write a paper about them.

https://transformer-circuits.pub/2023/july-update/index.html#safety-features

Removing features had a greater impact on the model than amplifying features. This suggests that the influence of features may saturate at high activations

Circuits Updates - April 2024

https://transformer-circuits.pub/2024/april-update/index.html#ablation-exps

AI Neural Feature

Write vector

Safety relevant feature

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