'this' after a verb or preposition
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. 10 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 'this' when it follows a word like 'of' or 'during' and points back to something being discussed. It is weaker and less reliable for 'here' and similar words, which turn it off. Turning it up made the writing wander.
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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the brain. Lobotomy was primarily used to treat schizophrenia but also as a soothing treatment for other disorders. The patients who survived were often quiet, but generally this surgery made the patients worse. Today lobotomy is considered barbaric and it is
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give flesh to the Montessori Method, it is obvious that Fisher sincerely believed that Montessori understood how to draw out the very best in children. In this story, Fisher gives an authentic celebration of childhood. The
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over the age of 50.⏎After getting baseline data on protein intake (averaging 16% of caloric intake; 69% of this being animal-based protein), they then divided people into three groups: the highest third
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contact prints (exactly the same size as the negative) and enlargements of the whole negative, which maintain the aspect ratio of the negative. Unfortunately in this case, we do not know the size of the original print, so we can't
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There are longer gaps between injections during this phase of your treatment. The gaps can be anywhere between two weeks to a month
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Work?⏎Braces put pressure against the teeth. Most of the pressure comes from a metal wire that goes across the outside of the teeth. Very slowly this pressure makes the teeth move and become straight.⏎The orthodontist adjusts the wire
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 will be here, and I will be able to read this document. How many times? How many times? How many Times? How many Times? I will be here. I will be here. I will be here. I will
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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a positive effect on mental health. Volunteering may enrich your life and teach you more about who you are, whether you do it in another country or right here at home.⏎Helping others through volunteer work is a beautiful way to meet new
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the following five instructions each on its own index card:⏎-Please proceed to the Security Check area and list all of the items in your possession on the back of this card.⏎-Please proceed to the Security Check area, list all of the items
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a digital copy or printout of this text for your personal, non-commercial use under the condition that you copy this document without modifications and in its entirety, including this copyright notice.⏎Book Two, Chapter Twenty-Four, "Man and the Evolution
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of Confederacy:⏎Article II. Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every Power, Jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled.⏎Provide for common
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
- L5:98 suppresses
- L4:1762 excites "this" in time and context phrases
- L9:82 suppresses
- L9:1292 suppresses
- L3:1004 weakly excites
- L8:606 weakly excites
- L6:1154 weakly suppresses
- L4:2480 weakly suppresses
- L5:2975 weakly excites
- L3:2029 weakly suppresses
- L8:739 weakly suppresses
- L6:2292 weakly suppresses
- L7:122 weakly excites
- L8:2035 weakly suppresses
- L9:2215 weakly suppresses
- L1:1020 weakly suppresses
- L1:934 weakly suppresses
- L8:2897 weakly excites
- L8:728 weakly excites
- L0:1457 weakly suppresses
- L7:2374 weakly excites
- L9:1670 weakly suppresses
- L1:2684 weakly excites
- L1:2267 weakly excites
Feeds later layers
- L13:1639 suppresses
- L19:2790 suppresses
- L12:2898 suppresses
- L12:1092 suppresses
- L20:2042 suppresses
- L14:1410 suppresses
- L12:378 suppresses
- L18:2115 suppresses
- L15:3065 suppresses
- L19:2254 suppresses
- L12:1671 suppresses
- L13:1478 weakly suppresses
- L11:942 weakly suppresses
- L14:753 weakly suppresses
- L14:2488 weakly suppresses
- L13:379 weakly excites
- L25:917 weakly excites
- L11:323 weakly suppresses
- L20:2237 weakly excites
- L11:1890 weakly excites
- L13:2472 weakly suppresses
- L27:2612 weakly excites
- L15:286 weakly suppresses
- L13:538 weakly suppresses
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
- %'⏎
- ' ⏎
- '-')⏎
- '"⏎
- %'
- ' ⏎
- !'⏎
- ') ⏎
- IPS
- ''⏎
Suppresses
- 娑
- 命
- jax
- 本次
- here
- 此刻
- iosity
- 살
- 普通
- 本届