"of" inside treaty names
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 "of" in historical treaty names such as "Treaty of Paris" or "Treaty of Versailles". Turning it up made the model drift into unrelated sentences about moral values and numbers.
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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of Florida diplomatically in 1763 through the Peace of Paris, but Spain regained it after Britain's defeat by the American colonies and the subsequent Treaty of Versailles (1
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the first recorded discovery of oil on the North American continent. The area where the spring is located has been a one square mile Seneca Reservation lot since the Treaty of Big Tree in 1797.⏎In 1927 a
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a printer, a philosopher, and a statesman. She became a wife, a mother, and a widow. He signed the Declaration of Independence, the Treaty of Paris, and the Constitution. She strained to form the letters of her name.
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signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1763.⏎Colonial Military Policy⏎Understanding the need
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settlements in Virginia begins (1606-07). French and English territorial claims overlap Acadia. Acadia is recognized as French possession by the Treaty of Breda (1667). A Royal Charter (167
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to do so.⏎Lenin had written The State and Revolution in Finland and outlined that he planned to create a single party State and did so gradually.⏎The Treaty of Brest
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: "What is a statement about the role of a company? I need to think about it." So, what can I say about a company? I need a statement. The purpose. The role of a company. The purpose of a company
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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testing the product. This involves checking the product against a predetermined set of requirements and validating that the product meets those requirements.⏎Examples of QC include technical reviews
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months, depending on how often you receive injections, and how well you tolerate the injections.⏎Maintenance phase – This phase begins once your physician determines that you have reached your effective dose.
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founded the Koryo dynasty. This dynasty, whose name is the basis of the word Korea, lasted until 1392.⏎Koryo had many Rulers. Koryo’s rulers continued to adopt Chinese ideas but worked to
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very wise king who was always determined to live according to his principles.⏎Osasona was a successful farmer and one of the town’s richest people. He had many wives and children but made sure that all his wives and children embraced Christianity.⏎He
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
- L5:125 excites "of" after all three, both, ten
- L8:2201 excites
- L6:285 suppresses
- L8:1300 excites
- L6:1318 suppresses
- L7:2164 weakly suppresses period inside country abbreviations
- L9:2196 weakly excites
- L5:1763 weakly suppresses
- L8:892 weakly excites
- L6:1588 weakly excites
- L8:298 weakly excites
- L9:820 weakly excites
- L5:1511 weakly excites
- L9:2219 weakly excites
- L4:2085 weakly excites
- L8:508 weakly suppresses
- L8:553 weakly suppresses
- L4:731 weakly excites
- L1:445 weakly suppresses document start marker token
- L6:1518 weakly excites
- L8:636 weakly suppresses
- L4:2230 weakly suppresses
- L7:2063 weakly suppresses
- L8:1389 weakly suppresses
Feeds later layers
- L12:1053 excites
- L14:1774 excites
- L13:1651 excites
- L13:743 excites
- L21:1411 excites
- L17:2380 excites
- L19:2264 excites
- L14:2485 weakly excites
- L20:132 weakly excites
- L12:2046 weakly excites
- L14:1075 weakly excites
- L19:852 weakly excites
- L16:1608 weakly excites
- L14:453 weakly excites
- L14:193 weakly excites
- L16:284 weakly suppresses
- L13:74 weakly excites
- L16:1911 weakly excites
- L18:1700 weakly excites 'so' in 'and so on'
- L15:1798 weakly excites
- L25:1452 weakly excites
- L16:1179 weakly excites
- L14:1444 weakly excites
- L14:2156 weakly excites opening parenthesis after a term
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
- itize
- случая
- 国家队
- Ẋ
- ⏎ ⏎ ⏎
- arrive
- dera
- ток
- stantiate
- Bring
Suppresses
- 水准
- CEED
- roud
- Ề
- hin
- 的空间
- sher
- OnClick
- cushions
- 人民服务