saey-over-100-token-in-context-features-the-a4
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Created 2026-08-25T02:57:55+00:00
Model A/4 contains over 100 token-in-context features responding to the word 'the' in different contexts.
Summary
Model A/4 doesn't treat the word "the" as a single fixed concept; instead, it breaks the processing of that word across more than a hundred separate internal channels, each tuned to a different surrounding context. This matters because any attempt to interpret, steer, or debug the model's handling of "the" has to account for a web of context-specific activations rather than one simple lookup, making the word far more functionally complex than its surface form suggests.