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I think I found the latent direction in Gemma (an SAE feature) that represents the pandemic era... Interpreted by projecting the vector to vocabulary space, yielding a list of tokens associated with it

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You got Covid, Zoom, Fauci, Moderna, Trump/Biden, Tiktok, lockdowns, quarantines, fentanyl, the metaverse, and NFTs! Really gives you PTSD... Encountered this funny SAE feature again (MLP 22.6656), found in our research on interpreting features in LLMs: aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lo...

aclanthology.orgEnhancing Automated Interpretability with Output-Centric Feature DescriptionsYoav Gur-Arieh, Roy Mayan, Chen Agassy, Atticus Geiger, Mor Geva. Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). 2025.