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Interpreting the internal representations of large language models (LLMs) is crucial for their deployment in real-world applications, impacting areas such as AI safety, debugging, and compliance. Sparse Autoencoders facilitate interpretability by decomposing polysemantic activation into a latent space of monosemantic features. However, evaluating the auto-interpretability of these features is difficult and computationally expensive, which limits scalability in practical settings. In this work, we propose SFAL, an alternative evaluation strategy that reduces reliance on LLM-based scoring by assessing the alignment between the semantic neighbourhoods of features (derived from auto-interpretation embeddings) and their functional neighbourhoods (derived from co-occurrence statistics). Our method enhances efficiency, enabling fast and cost-effective assessments. We validate our approach on large-scale models, demonstrating its potential to provide interpretability while reducing computational overhead, making it suitable for real-world deployment.