Neuron Explorer

Qwen3-0.6B

the word 'anniversary'

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

What this neuron does

This neuron fires strongly on the word 'anniversary', especially in phrases like '50th anniversary' or 'the anniversary of'. It is slightly negative on words like 'noble', 'nobleman' and 'grace'. Turning it up or down did not make the model's writing focus on anniversaries.

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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

    that it was on this night that God has first send down the first verses of the Quran via the angel Gabriel to the Islamic prophet Muhammad. It is also the anniversary of the night in which the Quran was first communicated in its entirety to Muhammad

  2. #2 peak

    William III, the Stadholder of Holland, who became King of England but remained passionately Dutch. This article commemorates the 300th anniversary of his death⏎The article you want to access is behind a paywall.

  3. #3 peak

    about the implications for the Geneva Refugee Convention on its seventieth anniversary.⏎The postwar refugee situation affected many people who had lost their homes for various

  4. #4 peak

    socialist thinker was born. The statute, designed by world-renowned Chinese sculptor Wu Weishan, is a gift to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Marx’s birth, which will take place in 2018.⏎

  5. #5 peak

    for a double layer of <|endoftext|>It was 50 years ago that the Soviet-controlled Eastern Bloc began construction of the Berlin Wall. Germany is commemorating the anniversary with solemn ceremonies, including a memorial for those who died trying to climb the wall

  6. #6 peak

    literary canon, but what makes her so great?⏎In celebration of the Royal Society of Literature’s 200th birthday, and the 10th anniversary of the premier Caribbean literary festival, the NGC Bocas Lit Fest,

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: I need to be more focused. I need to be more aware of my surroundings. I need to be more honest with myself and with others. I need to be more determined with my life. I need to be more independent of myself.

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

    feudal lord. Confucius, however, gave this word a new meaning. For him, a nobleman was such by merit and not by birth. The nobleman is a righteous individual, an example of filial piety, humane behaviour

  2. #2 peak

    roman books⏎The works translated the following take care of significant subject matters within the considering St Augustine (354-430): loose will and divine grace. at the one hand, unfastened will allows people to make their very

  3. #3 peak

    only one to have survived, was the temple. Not a place for collective worship but rather a house of the gods, only the temple's priests and the high nobility were allowed to enter the inner sanctums. The temple did, however,

  4. #4 peak

    Assyrian city of Nimrud. Comparative pieces stand proudly in the British Museum, attracting

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. L1:1027 excites
  2. L3:1165 excites
  3. L1:2443 weakly excites
  4. L4:2737 weakly suppresses
  5. L2:1671 weakly excites
  6. L2:269 weakly suppresses
  7. L20:870 weakly excites
  8. L21:2022 weakly suppresses
  9. L4:938 weakly suppresses
  10. L3:631 weakly excites
  11. L9:2489 weakly suppresses
  12. L20:2220 weakly suppresses
  13. L21:2853 weakly suppresses
  14. L9:2322 weakly suppresses
  15. L9:2346 weakly excites
  16. L19:1591 weakly suppresses
  17. L12:1893 weakly suppresses
  18. L12:2127 weakly suppresses
  19. L5:3055 weakly suppresses
  20. L6:2136 weakly excites
  21. L7:1310 weakly suppresses
  22. L22:2592 weakly suppresses
  23. L3:583 weakly excites
  24. L10:940 weakly suppresses

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 -0.83 and -0.801 values between -0.80 and -0.771 values between -0.58 and -0.543 values between -0.48 and -0.451 values between -0.45 and -0.422 values between -0.42 and -0.382 values between -0.38 and -0.352 values between -0.35 and -0.321 values between -0.32 and -0.295 values between -0.29 and -0.265 values between -0.26 and -0.2220 values between -0.22 and -0.1922 values between -0.19 and -0.1640 values between -0.16 and -0.1375 values between -0.13 and -0.10165 values between -0.10 and -0.06430 values between -0.06 and -0.031230 values between -0.03 and 0.001134 values between 0.00 and 0.03437 values between 0.03 and 0.07186 values between 0.07 and 0.1082 values between 0.10 and 0.1330 values between 0.13 and 0.1614 values between 0.16 and 0.1910 values between 0.19 and 0.235 values between 0.23 and 0.261 values between 0.29 and 0.321 values between 0.32 and 0.351 values between 0.39 and 0.421 values between 0.42 and 0.45offnegativepositiveoften

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. ump
  2. uing
  3. uting
  4. reed
  5. 中国古代
  6. uct
  7. 作为一种
  8. -period
  9. 中国传统
  10. umps

Suppresses

  1. OLA
  2. OL
  3. ola
  4. idence
  5. Ready
  6. dirig
  7. إلا
  8. hel
  9. اد
  10. olis