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TransformerLens

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Mechanistic interpretability library — enables Activation Addition (ActAdd) by accessing transformer residual streams, computing steering vectors, and injecting them via forward hooks for real-time latent space steering

AI/ML, open-source
What the vendor's own documentation says
TransformerLens lets you load in 15,000+ open source language models across 140+ architecture families, and exposes the internal activations of the model to you.
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Who controls it

Not yet assessed. We publish a sovereignty position only where the vendor documents one — we do not infer it from a domain or a company name.

How this grade is set

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