Feature 31248 · Modal auxiliary verbs (will/can/might)
Gemma Scope 2, gemma-3-27b-it, residual stream after layer 31, width 262,144.
Neuronpedia label
explaining code features
Neuronpedia's record for this index: explanations “verbs starting sentences”; “explaining code features”, by gemini-2.5-flash-lite from activations and promoted tokens · density on Neuronpedia's corpus one token in 458 (0.2185%) · activation examples held 20 · max activation 1205.2258.
Auto-interpretability over a broad general corpus, written for the base dictionary and carried to the instruction-tuned one by index.
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ICRA reading
Modal auxiliary verbs (will/can/might)
The feature fires on modal auxiliary constructions—"will," "can," "might," "needs," "implies," "makes"—that announce a stated future intention, capacity, or logical entailment, whether in brisk email plans or dense theoretical argument.
mostly neutral/administrative brisk-efficiency in the email windows, with a faint intellectual anticipation or gravitas in the theoretical ones; no single strong affect runs throughout.
Frame v4-vibe · icra-v4-vibe · 2026-09-21 · from 30 windows of 192 tokens, crest at token 128: 15 from the author's own writing, 15 from the works he holds formative, read through this model.
In the diary
kind at entry 100 content
register semantic
strong entries of 100 1
thread no (its strong entries hold no run longer than chance would give, or it is ground)
Strongest crests in the diary
One per entry, the token the feature peaks on marked, in the diary's own sentence; activity is the peak over the entry divided by the feature's reference scale.
e60 · 0.53The architect *needs* conflict, *needs* scarcity, *needs* limitation in order to
The windows the reading was made from
30 windows of 192 tokens, the feature's crest at token 128, firing tokens marked; ¶ marks a paragraph break in the source.
1from being completely destroyed and arrest Alfonso. In the novels, however, he is allowed to escape. ¶ In the novels, it is revealed that his master plan was to purge the church of the unworthy, by destroying Rome. He planned to rebuild the Vatican in Cologne, with a newly appointed clergy chosen personally by him. He later resurfaces in the city of Borno, having convinced many church workers to join his new organization, named "Neue Vatican." Having taken Alessandro hostage, the Archbishop attempts to crown himself as Pope of his "Neue Vatican" but his plans are eventually thwarted by the AX. ¶ == Antonio Borgia == ¶ Appears in novels and manga only ¶ Antonio is described as an impressive young man with long hair, and a rather undignified appearance for someone of his position. The Prince of Hispania and a top student of the University of Colonge, Antonio is a genius who received seven doctorates by the age of twenty-three
2Freud - speaking to people not otherwise formed who may be the people of his ordinary audience - making a reference to it, but that also, for any reflection which takes into account what is different in what is involved in the relation of any subject whatsoever to the real - because of the fact that it, as subject, is only grounded, is only established in so far as, in the real, there already are, and being exercised as such, the powers of language - obliges us to take our questioning further. ¶ The path that Freud makes us take certainly remains no less astonishing - in truth only takes on the value which grounds the appropriate astonishment we experience on hearing it - from the fact that we articulate more precisely what he renews about the relations between thinking and being. Undoubtedly a theme that has been brought onto the agenda by the discourse of one or other contemporary philosophers, Heidegger in the
3leg muscles but who as we should say has not the use of his legs for some reason or other, they say he is a man who can run fast. The drawn image of a man which shews large biceps they describe as representing a man “who can throw a spear far”. ¶ 48). The men of a tribe are subjected to a kind of medical examination before going into war. The examiner puts the men through a set of standardised tests. He lets them lift certain weights, swing their arms, skip, etc. The examiner then gives his verdict in the form “So-and-so can throw a spear” or “can throw a boomerang” or “is fit to pursue the enemy”, etc. There are no special expressions in the language of this tribe for the activities performed in the tests; but these are referred to only as the tests for certain activities in warfare. ¶ It is an important remark concerning this example and others which we give
4as these: I hear the word “tree” and say “Yes” with the tone of voice and sensation of “Of course”. Or I hear “corroboration” – I say to myself, “Let me see”, vaguely remember a case of helping, and say “Yes”. I hear “gadget”, I imagine the man who always used this word, and say “Yes”. I hear “Mamma”, this strikes me as funny and childish, – “Yes”. A foreign word I shall very often translate in my mind into English before answering. I hear “spinthariscope”, and say to myself, “Must be some sort of scientific instrument”, perhaps try to think up its meaning from its derivation and fail, and say “No”. In another case I might say to myself, “Sounds like Chinese” – “No”. Etc. There will on the other hand be a large class of cases in which I am not aware
5it is not expected, that it is substituted for another signifier, that a signified effect is produced which is new, which is neither along the line that one has tried, nor along the line of what is unexpected. If this unexpected had not precisely been characterised as unexpected, it is something original which in a certain way had to be realised in the mind of each person according to his own angles of refraction. In any case there is the fact that there is an opening up of a new signified by this something which ensures for example that Sydney Smith is on the whole thought to be a wit, namely does not express himself in clichés. ¶ But why the devil? ¶ If we refer to our little schema, it will all the same help us a good deal. The reason why one makes schemas is in order to make use of them. One can however arrive at the same result without them, but the schema in
6<bos>The reason is simple. The face is not a universal. It is not even that of the white man; it is White Man himself, with his broad white cheeks and the black hole of his eyes. The face is Christ. The face is the typical European, what Ezra Pound called the average sensual man, in short, the ordinary everyday Erotomaniac (nineteenth-century psychiatrists were right to say that erotomania, unlike nymphomania, often remains pure and chaste; this is because it operates through the face and facialization). Not a universal, but fades totius universi. Jesus Christ superstar: he invented the facialization of the entire body and spread it everywhere (the Passion of Joan of Arc, in close-up). Thus the face is by nature an entirely specific idea, which did not preclude its acquiring and exercising the most general of functions: the function of biuni vocalization, or binarization. It has
7it here by the confrontation of $ with the demand, signifies what? Very precisely the following: it is that this and nothing other than this point that we call the code point and which is only carried away in so far as analysis begins to decipher the coherence of the upper chain, it is in so far as the subject S qua subject of the unconscious, namely qua the subject who is constituted in the beyond of the concrete discourse, qua subject sees, reads, hears, I say retroactively, we can suppose him here as the support for the articulation of the unconscious (la conscience), encounters what? Encounters that which in this chain of the word of the subject in so far as he asks questions about himself encounters the demand. ¶ What role does the demand play at this level? At this level, and this is what the sign between $ and D means, at this level demand is affected with its properly symbolic
8if you wish, is found to be continuous with the inside face in passing to the inside of the object and therefore can return in one single circuit from the other side of the surface from which it started. It is something very easy to produce in the simplest fashion when you do something with a strip of paper which consists in taking it and twisting it in such a way that its edge is stuck on to the extreme edge after being reversed. You will see that it is a surface which has effectively only a single face, in this sense that something travelling on it never encounters in a certain sense any limit, passes from one side to the other without your being able to grasp at any instant where the conjuring trick has taken place. ¶ Therefore there is here the possibility on the surface of any sphere whatsoever of coming to produce, to simplify any surface however complicated it may be. Let us add here the possibility of
9<bos>29 <0x0C> We are dealing here with a borderline concept, which does not suffer any realization since it claims to aim at something that would stay outside any representation. Peirce needs all his verve to give it existence, needs to make the tongue vibrate to sustain its signifying face without binding it too quickly to a reference that would fully constitute it as sign. There is scarcely any other recourse to reach such an objective than to pile on meanings, to heap them up until one is out of breath, to ruin any bi-univocal sign/referent relation, and in this way to let there be understood a function of the tongue most often deafened by the representative baggage-train. Benjamin, to end up with the quotation that we have read, used another stratagem to produce, for his part also, a pure manifestation free of any reference to a goal but determined:
10is already very striking, this is in the foreground, the maternal body becomes in a way the enclosure and the dwelling place of what can be localised in it, projected into it in terms of the drives of the child, these drives being themselves motivated by the aggression caused by a fundamental disappointment. And when all is said and done, in this dialectic, nothing can get us out of a sort of mechanism of illusory projection, of a construction of the world originating from primordial phantasies in a sort of autogenesis; the genesis of the exterior as locus of the bad remains purely artificial, and in a way submits every subsequent accession to reality, to a pure dialectic of phantasy. ¶ To complete this Kleinian dialectic, it is necessary to introduce this notion that the exterior for the subject is given from the first, not as something which is projected from the interior of the subject, from his
11posterior seizing the superior and dragging it toward the inferior. Such would be the strange time, the indescribable diagram of writing, the unrepresentable movement of its forces and its menaces. ¶ In what consists the precision and the exactitude of language, that lodging of writing? Above all in literalness [propriété]. A precise and exact language should be absolutely univocal and literal [propre]: nonmetaphorical. The language is written, and pro-regresses, to the extent that it masters or effaces the figure in itself. ¶ Effaces, that is, its origin. For language is originarily metaphorical. According to Rousseau it derives this from its mother, passion. Metaphor is the characteristic that relates language to its origin. Writing would then be the obliteration of this characteristic, the “maternal
12<bos> King of the Spirits of Fire. Rules ao® IT^to ao* X, including part of Hercules ¶ Right Lever Point ¶ 31 ¶ The Princess cf the Shining Flame. The Rose of the Palace of Fire. Rules one Quadrant of Heavens round N. Pole ¶ Left Lower Point . , ¶ . . . 0 . . . ¶ 33 bis ¶ The Root of the Powen cf Fire (Ace) .... ¶ Topmost Point . . . ¶ 31 bis ¶ LXX VI. ¶ The Five Skandhas.
13a part of the body, a body that is already deterritorialized relatively and plugged into becomings-spiritual/animal. Beyond the face lies an altogether different inhumanity: no longer that of the primitive head, but of “probe-heads”; here, cutting edges of deterritorialization become operative and lines of deterritorialization positive and absolute, forming strange new becomings, new polyvocalities. Become clandestine, make rhizome everywhere, for the wonder of a nonhuman life to be created. Face, my love, you have finally become a probe-head… Year zen, year omega, year co… Must we leave it at that, three states, and no more: primitive heads, Christ-face, and probe-heads? ¶ 8. 1874: Three Novellas, or ‘What Happened?” ¶ [[g-d-gilles-deleuze-felix-guattari-a
14Itinerant metallurgy ¶ Nomad war machine ¶ PROPOSITION IX. War does not necessarily have the battle as its object, and more important, the war machine does not necessarily have war as its object, although war and the battle may be its necessary result (under certain conditions). ¶ We now come to three successive problems. First, is the battle the “object” of war? But also, is war the “object” of the war machine? And finally, to what extent is the war machine the “object” of the State apparatus? The ambiguity of the first two problems is certainly due to the term “object,” but implies their dependency on the third. We must nevertheless approach these problems gradually, even if we are reduced to multiplying examples. The first question, that of the battle, requires an immediate distinction to be made between two cases: when a battle is sought, and when it is essentially avoided by the war machine. These two cases
15it is changeable, likely to be swayed by ‘speech [discours], discussion, the vote and changeable will [volonté mobile]’. ‘It is excluded from savoir (political knowledge [savoir] and knowledge [savoir] of things)’ (LWK 183/190). ‘Popular power only listens to its interests and its desires. It is violent: it imposes its will on everyone. It is murderous.’ Foucault notes that this is especially in relation to the wise man [le sage], and in the course as actually delivered, rather than the manuscript, makes the explicit reference to Socrates (LWK 183/190 and n). Popular power is criminal in its essence . . . criminal in its relation to the nomos, to law as the foundation of the city’s existence. Popular power is a crime against the very
16<bos>[email to PALab research group, 2010-12-09] Subject: Monitoring forms ¶ I am in tomorrow to sign any monitoring forms. Will have some meetings so just knock. ¶ Best ¶ Iman Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
17<bos>[email to PALab research group, 2010-12-09] Subject: PALab posting Monitoring forms ¶ I am in tomorrow to sign any monitoring forms. Will have some meetings so just knock. ¶ Best ¶ Iman Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device palab mailing list on the King's College London mailing list system.
18<bos>[email to PALab research group, 2010-12-09] Subject: PALab posting Monitoring forms ¶ I am in tomorrow to sign any monitoring forms. Will have some meetings so just knock. ¶ Best ¶ Iman Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device palab mailing list on the King's College London mailing list system.
19<bos>[email to iman.poernomo@gmail.com, 2010-12-09] Subject: PALab posting Monitoring forms ¶ I am in tomorrow to sign any monitoring forms. Will have some meetings so just knock. ¶ Best ¶ Iman Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device palab mailing list on the King's College London mailing list system.
20<bos>[email to msc.list@dcs.kcl.ac.uk, 2011-06-15] Subject: Ooops ¶ Sorry the previous email was sent to wrong list - was intended only for my msc project students - apologies. ¶ Sent from my iPhone
21<bos>[email to Jeroen Keppens, 2008-06-25] Subject: George's transfer location ¶ Will be in my office, 2pm. ¶ Best wishes, ¶ Iman
22<bos>[caravansarai, 2010-10-13] a new thread begins: ¶ It's really lovely to read your posts again QJ, I hope you are feeling much better. Will be keeping a more regular eye here now you are back in town :) ¶ Love and Light, ¶ Musa (the Tailor)
23<bos>[email to Gbolahan Williams, 2008-06-25] Subject: Other experiment ¶ Hi Gbolahan, ¶ I've had a pretty small uptake of volunteers. Hopefully will get more by Friday. But if you have any friends who could join in this Friday, would be very helpful. ¶ Best wishes, ¶ Iman
24<bos>[email to correspondent, 2011-03-02] Subject: PALab posting Msc students ¶ ... Might come by my office, if so tell them I am delayed 15 mins ¶ Iman Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device palab mailing list on the King's College London mailing list system.
25<bos>[email to Kevin Lano, 2011-09-19] Subject: Grade sheets ¶ Will be in your pigeon hole end of day today ¶ Iman ¶ Sent from my iPhone
26<bos>[email to correspondent, 2010-11-06] Subject: Meetings ¶ Hi Laurie, ¶ Will get back to you about meetings - meeting with Paul was helpful - he feels that to differentiate stronger from the rest and to make it FET-worthy we need to move it beyond mere interoperation - will fill you in with more details tomorrow ¶ Best ¶ Iman Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
27<bos>[email to correspondent, 2009-12-07] Subject: My Christmas do ¶ Salaams, ¶ Thought you might enjoy this description of my research lab's get together at my house: http://thegoodgarment.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/christmas-drinks-at-the-professors-house/ ¶ I
28<bos>[email to iman.poernomo@gmail.com, 2011-03-02] Subject: PALab posting Msc students ¶ ... Might come by my office, if so tell them I am delayed 15 mins ¶ Iman Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device palab mailing list on the King's College London mailing list system.
29<bos>[email to Fuad Ali, 2012-01-22] Subject: Re: Salams and sorries ¶ [Fuad Ali]: I shouldnt have said that. Got very angry. Wont happen again. ¶ No problem - we all get angry sometimes about the things we care about - my mum and Asel included it seems :) ¶ Sent from my iPhone
30<bos> actual R&R in the repo is heavier on DOHTT, on the formal type theory, on the empirical TDA chapters. Is there a gap between what we promised them and what the manuscript delivers? Because if so, we might want to write a short covering note that bridges it — or even consider whether specific chapters need a light editorial pass to foreground the philosophical register before the formal one. Want me to read through Chapter 1 and the Coda and assess how they'd land for Mercedes?