'that' after reporting verbs
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. 1 of Qwen3-0.6B. Its strongest snippets are very consistent: they mostly 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
This neuron fires on the word 'that' when it introduces a claim after verbs like 'reported', 'stated' or 'promised', as in 'the CDC also reports that'. Turning it up sent the model into vague sentences that did not clearly show this behaviour.
Written by Claude from this neuron's activations and steering outputs. Confidence: medium. Think it is wrong? Flag it (opens a prefilled issue on GitHub).
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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by large bodies of cavalry and several regiments of infantry, while the heights on both sides were crowned by Russian artillery and infantry. Lord Raglan, perceiving that it was the intention of the Russians to carry off the guns they had captured from
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pe climates, usually border desert climates. In both climate groups, the temperature change between day and night is considerable. One reason for the wide swings in temperature is that the skies are clear and the air is dry. Clouds would reflect much of
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children tend to have more.⏎They estimate that more than 29 million Americans have a sinus infection or other sinus-related problems each ear.⏎The CDC also reports that influenza has resulted in nine to 45 million illnesses, 140
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the size of a similar-size hoofed mammal and eyes only a third as large.⏎The combined effect was that Myotragus was sluggish, with slow reaction times, the bone study suggests
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during this time, and that there was unequal access to maize between the sites, which the authors argue may have led to social tension through inequality.⏎The authors state that a combination of factors may have contributed to the high level of lethal trauma in the
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in the Old Testament, faith was the only way the Saints could receive God’s promises. In the Garden of Eden, God promised that one day a Redeemer would come. Their hope was a future hope. They
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: I have been thinking about lately, and I have been thinking about lately, and I have been thinking about lately, and I have been thinking about lately, and I have been thinking about lately, and I have been thinking about lately, and
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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003.⏎This article compares three eighteenth century evaluations about jesuitic missions among the Guaranis - Relação abbreviada da republica, que os religiosos jesuitas estabelecerão no Paraguai
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grassy plateau that sweeps across the South African interior. The city bestrides the Witwatersrand, or Rand, a string of low, rocky ridges that constitutes the watershed between the
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ANE?⏎Hurricanes are tropical cyclones that occur in the Atlantic Ocean and have winds with a sustained speed of at least
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clothing sun protection,” by the Skin Cancer Foundation (1), UPF (Ultraviolet Protection Factor) treatment is designed to limit the amount of ultraviolet rays that penetrate your clothing’s fabric.⏎- SPF: On the other hand, SPF (
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
- L0:1224 suppresses
- L0:178 suppresses
- L0:1301 suppresses
- L0:1966 weakly suppresses
- L0:1313 weakly excites
- L0:664 weakly excites
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- L0:962 weakly suppresses
- L0:2744 weakly excites
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- L0:1234 weakly excites
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- L0:2069 weakly excites
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- L0:84 weakly suppresses
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- L0:2204 weakly excites
- L0:574 weakly excites
Feeds later layers
- L17:1361 suppresses 'that' after verbs like recommend
- L4:2517 weakly suppresses
- L3:1485 weakly suppresses
- L21:571 weakly excites
- L3:1418 weakly excites
- L3:905 weakly suppresses
- L5:953 weakly excites
- L4:956 weakly suppresses 'that' after a noun, introducing a clause
- L11:1524 weakly excites
- L8:2274 weakly excites
- L26:963 weakly suppresses
- L18:160 weakly suppresses
- L7:2551 weakly excites
- L19:1703 weakly suppresses
- L13:344 weakly suppresses
- L2:45 weakly excites
- L12:1655 weakly excites
- L19:869 weakly suppresses
- L23:3019 weakly excites
- L6:665 weakly suppresses
- L23:743 weakly excites
- L26:106 weakly suppresses
- L13:2049 weakly excites
- L19:2174 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
- stakes
- 这种情况
- ellation
- uforia
- 帐
- iframe
- account
- 五个
- 童话
- spoilers
Suppresses
- eness
- onn
- een
- bane
- 税务局
- uetype
- nak
- erne
- né
- developed