# Tracing the thoughts of a large language model

Source: https://www.anthropic.com/research/tracing-thoughts-language-model
Published: 2025-03-27
Status: unreviewed source report

## Source excerpt (up to 25 words)

> Anthropic's latest interpretability research: a new microscope to understand Claude's internal mechanisms

## Review question

Distinguish a verbal rationale from a causal study of model internals. Look for interventions, competing mechanisms, coverage limits and explicit failures of the interpretation method.

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