Researcher questions whether 'persona neurons' are just salient concept neurons
1a3orn · x · 2026-10-30
Researcher 1a3orn challenges the recent 'persona neuron' interpretability work: strongly activating a concept and then asking 'who are you' naturally yields 'I am X' responses, so these may just be salient concept neurons rather than something special about identity. He asks whether he's missing something.
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