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license: cc-by-nc-4.0
library_name: saelens

Gemma Scope:

This is a landing page for Gemma Scope, a comprehensive, open suite of sparse autoencoders for Gemma 2 9B and 2B. Sparse Autoencoders are a "microscope" of sorts that can help us break down a model’s internal activations into the underlying concepts, just as biologists use microscopes to study the individual cells of plants and animals.

Key links:

Learn more about Gemma Scope in our Google DeepMind blog post.
Check out the interactive Gemma Scope demo made by Neuronpedia.
Check out our Google Colab notebook tutorial for how to use Gemma Scope.
Read the Gemma Scope technical report.
Check out Mishax, a GDM internal tool that we used in this project to expose the internal activations inside Gemma 2 models.

Quick start:

You can get started with Gemma Scope by downloading the weights from any of our repositories:

The full list of SAEs we trained at which sites and layers are linked from the following table, adapted from Figure 1 of our technical report:

Gemma 2 Model	SAE Width	Attention	MLP	Residual	Tokens
2.6B PT (26 layers)	2^14 ≈ 16.4K	All	All +	All	4B
	2^15			{12}	8B
	2^16	All	All	All	8B
	2^17			{12}	8B
	2^18			{12}	8B
	2^19			{12}	8B
	2^20 ≈ 1M			{5, 12, 19}	16B
9B PT (42 layers)	2^14	All	All	All	4B
	2^15			{20}	8B
	2^16			{20}	8B
	2^17	All	All	All	8B
	2^18			{20}	8B
	2^19			{20}	8B
	2^20			{9, 20, 31}	16B
27B PT (46 layers)	2^17			{10, 22, 34}	8B
9B IT (42 layers)	2^14			{9, 20, 31}	4B
	2^17			{9, 20, 31}	8B