unclear: 'high tech' and mid-word pieces
A neuronOne of thousands of tiny dials inside each layer. It reads the text so far and produces a number, its activation, that nudges what the model writes next. in layerOne step in the stack the text passes through. Qwen3-0.6B has 28 layers, each with 3,072 neurons. 0 of Qwen3-0.6B. Its strongest snippets are fairly consistent: several of them peak on the same token. It is featuredA neuron picked for the full treatment: steering outputs and a written explanation. About 3,000 of the 86,000 neurons are 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.
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Fires most on
The text windows where this neuron's activationThe number a neuron produces for a token. Large positive means it fired hard; negative means it pushed the other way. was highest. Amber marks positive activation; the outlined tokenA piece of text the model reads at once: often a word, sometimes part of a word or a punctuation mark. is the peak. Hover a token for its strength.
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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
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") 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
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Tick Paralysis⏎|Spinose Ear Tick⏎|Peanut-shaped and covered with small spines⏎||Causes intense irritation, rubbing
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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
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dramatic and richly meaningful story of the Golden Calf and the Divine anger, of Moses’ pleading on behalf of Israel, and the
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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
SteeringAdding a push along a neuron while the model writes, to see how its output changes. Turning it up or down.
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.
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.
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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
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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
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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
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, 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 mapWhich neuronsOne of thousands of tiny dials inside each layer. It reads the text so far and produces a number, its activation, that nudges what the model writes next. in earlier layersOne step in the stack the text passes through. Qwen3-0.6B has 28 layers, each with 3,072 neurons. 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
- L4:108 suppresses "or" offering a choice in web text
- L10:135 suppresses 'or' in alternative requirements
- L18:2197 suppresses
- L19:572 suppresses
- L22:2379 weakly suppresses
- L19:1237 weakly suppresses
- L23:1555 weakly suppresses
- L7:2457 weakly excites
- L12:1544 weakly excites
- L21:2693 weakly excites
- L17:1722 weakly excites number right after a product or name
- L18:1442 weakly excites unclear: word fragments and digits inside numbers
- L25:2950 weakly excites 'in' in 'in progress' phrases
- L1:1710 weakly suppresses
- L4:1575 weakly excites
- L24:1193 weakly excites
- L10:700 weakly suppresses
- L11:2581 weakly excites
- L3:2038 weakly excites
- L18:650 weakly suppresses the word 'more' before a comparison
- L22:2883 weakly suppresses
- L25:786 weakly suppresses
- L21:886 weakly excites
- L9:1920 weakly excites
Activation histogramA chart of how often a neuron takes each activation value.
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.
Logit lensReading which output tokens a neuron pushes toward or away from, straight off its output weights, before the later layers have their say.
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 layersOne step in the stack the text passes through. Qwen3-0.6B has 28 layers, each with 3,072 neurons. instead.
Promotes
- imple
- peare
- insula
- iards
- datatype
- 长短
- elope
- 的因素
- ByteArray
- dì
Suppresses
- thon
- verdiği
- chest
- hg
- soul
- one
- .space
- 挚
- сть
- 7