The mysterious 'Chinese spirit neuron' may trace back to a Dream of the Red Chamber translation
Sauers_ · x · 2026-10-19
Sauers suggests that the "Chinese spirit neuron" observed in a model appears to originate from Chi-Chen Wang's translated and adapted English edition of Dream of the Red Chamber, sharing the book's cover.
A fun provenance find for interpretability work: a culture-specific neuron activation may be traceable to a classic literary translation in the training corpus.
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