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Vibhu: Gemma Activates Abstract Behavioral Traits Over Simple Token Completion

Vibhu (Viboo) · The Utility of Interpretability — Emmanuel Amiesen · Jun 6, 2025 · at 21:47

Podcast co-host Vibhu demonstrates circuit tracing on Gemma 2B for a dog breed prompt, observing semantic feature activations for breed characteristics.

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“It also shows internally that there's more than just token completion of, you know, this plus this equals this. No, it has some under understanding of characteristics, right? Like this is a pretty stubborn dog. It has a stubborn feature. Pretty high up that activate.”

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