Neuron Explorer

Qwen3-0.6B

unclear: 'high tech' and mid-word pieces

A neuron in layer 0 of Qwen3-0.6B. Its strongest snippets are fairly consistent: several of them peak on the same token. It is featured, so it has steering outputs.

What this neuron does

The neuron fires on a few scattered word pieces, such as 'tech' in 'high tech' and parts of longer words, with no clear shared theme. It fires negative on the 'or' in words like 'in-orbit' and 'sub-orbital'. Turning it up or down made the model's continuations change topic, but not in any way that connects to these words.

Written by Claude from this neuron's activations and steering outputs. Confidence: low. Think it is wrong? Flag it (opens a prefilled issue on GitHub).

Fires most on

The text windows where this neuron's activation was highest. Amber marks positive activation; the outlined token is the peak. Hover a token for its strength.

  1. #1 peak

    ecosystem, and its ecological processes like sediment transport.”⏎But eight sites are being sized up for dam development along the Vjosa by foreign companies. The new Albanian government is privately resisting their approaches.⏎Edi Rama, Albania’s prime minister

  2. #2 peak

    ") is the use of tools and labor to make things for use or sale. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to industrial production, in which raw materials are transformed

  3. #3 peak

    Tick Paralysis⏎|Spinose Ear Tick⏎|Peanut-shaped and covered with small spines⏎||Causes intense irritation, rubbing

  4. #4 peak

    health professionals. Much of this information depicts good health in terms of vigilance against the failings of our own bodies. This serves to create dependency on a high tech, commodity health system.⏎The style of language and the content of information are very

  5. #5 peak

    dramatic and richly meaningful story of the Golden Calf and the Divine anger, of Moses’ pleading on behalf of Israel, and the

  6. #6 peak

    ilage?⏎Cartilage plays a major role in many areas of your body. When looking specifically at your joints and surrounding structures, cartilage works to:⏎- Cushion your joints and decrease friction⏎- Hold your bones together⏎Exploring the Different

Steering

Push this neuron up or down while the model writes, and watch what changes. The outputs were generated ahead of time, so nothing runs in your browser.

turned down a lot
Prompt

Here is something I have been thinking about lately: the thing that a thing is the thing. I think the thing or the thing or the thing. I think the thing or the thing or the thing. I think the thing or the thing or the thing. I think the thing or the

Most negative on

Where the activation went furthest below zero. Blue marks negative activation. Many neurons mean something different in each direction.

  1. #1 peak

    to three astronauts to low-Earth orbit. It encompasses a life-support and propulsion module, a re-entry capsule for their safe return to Earth, and an in-orbit module for temporary human habitation.⏎The forthcoming spacecraft will be designed with only

  2. #2 peak

    24th October, 1946, when a V-2 rocket lifted the first ever space-bound camera above New Mexico on a short sub-orbital flight. From an altitude of 65 miles, a 3

  3. #3 peak

    of particle acceleration could be happening throughout⏎the cosmos–from supernovas to solar storms–wherever a supersonic wind hits a⏎back home, Earth-orbiting satellites and departing astronauts have a new

  4. #4 peak

    , of the neuropsychiatry and behavioral science departments on the College of South Carolina, Columbia. “The components of the mind liable for our flight-fight-or-freeze response would interpret each simulated and actual occasions identically and produce the identical

Connections

Show on map

Which neurons in earlier layers feed this one, and which later ones it feeds. Amber links excite, blue links suppress; longer bars are stronger.

Fed by earlier layers

None: this is the first layer.

Feeds later layers

  1. L4:108 suppresses "or" offering a choice in web text
  2. L10:135 suppresses 'or' in alternative requirements
  3. L18:2197 suppresses
  4. L19:572 suppresses
  5. L22:2379 weakly suppresses
  6. L19:1237 weakly suppresses
  7. L23:1555 weakly suppresses
  8. L7:2457 weakly excites
  9. L12:1544 weakly excites
  10. L21:2693 weakly excites
  11. L17:1722 weakly excites number right after a product or name
  12. L18:1442 weakly excites unclear: word fragments and digits inside numbers
  13. L25:2950 weakly excites 'in' in 'in progress' phrases
  14. L1:1710 weakly suppresses
  15. L4:1575 weakly excites
  16. L24:1193 weakly excites
  17. L10:700 weakly suppresses
  18. L11:2581 weakly excites
  19. L3:2038 weakly excites
  20. L18:650 weakly suppresses the word 'more' before a comparison
  21. L22:2883 weakly suppresses
  22. L25:786 weakly suppresses
  23. L21:886 weakly excites
  24. L9:1920 weakly excites

Activation histogram

How often this neuron fires at each strength. Almost always it does close to nothing (the tall bars in the middle); the snippets above are the rare moments it fired hard, amber for positive and blue for negative.

1 values between -2.94 and -2.862 values between -2.61 and -2.531 values between -2.45 and -2.361 values between -2.36 and -2.287 values between -2.28 and -2.202 values between -2.20 and -2.122 values between -2.12 and -2.033 values between -2.03 and -1.951 values between -1.54 and -1.461 values between -1.30 and -1.211 values between -1.21 and -1.131 values between -1.05 and -0.971 values between -0.72 and -0.642 values between -0.56 and -0.471 values between -0.47 and -0.396 values between -0.39 and -0.3113 values between -0.31 and -0.2338 values between -0.23 and -0.15351 values between -0.15 and -0.062496 values between -0.06 and 0.02796 values between 0.02 and 0.10157 values between 0.10 and 0.1822 values between 0.18 and 0.272 values between 0.27 and 0.35offnegativepositiveoften

Logit lens

The words this neuron nudges the model toward (amber) or away from (blue) when it fires. A hint, not a label: many neurons work through later layers instead.

Promotes

  1. imple
  2. peare
  3. insula
  4. iards
  5. datatype
  6. 长短
  7. elope
  8. 的因素
  9. ByteArray
  10. dì

Suppresses

  1. thon
  2. verdiği
  3. chest
  4. hg
  5. soul
  6. one
  7. .space
  8. 挚
  9. сть
  10. 7