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Hidden state

The vector a recurrent network carries from step to step; a learned, fixed-size, lossy summary of the sequence so far.

In detail

It is an activation, recomputed for every sequence, not a set of weights. An output layer reads it to produce a forecast or label. Because the same update rule overwrites it at every step, what it keeps is what training found useful for the loss.