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  "abstract": "Abstract MicroScope is an interpretability workbench that searches for candidate internal sites whose intervention behavior may explain a model output under a bounded probe. Resolution Frontier Search extends isolated activation inspection into an evidence ladder: baseline, ablation, restoration, and neighbor control. It ranks residual-stream and attention-head candidates with decomposed metrics, exports exact tensors and intervention artifacts, and refuses to promote a ranked site into a universal mechanistic claim without the required controls and benchmark families.",
  "author": "Hayden Lindley",
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