Neuron Explorer

Qwen3-0.6B

open parenthesis in citations

A neuron in layer 11 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 on the opening bracket in references and citations, such as the '(2003)' after a page number or the '(1862-1865)' after a regiment number. Turning it up did not make the writing noticeably more citation-like.

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 activation was highest. Amber marks positive activation; the outlined token is the peak. Hover a token for its strength.

  1. #1 peak

    within a matter of seconds. See George C. Wilson, Visible Violence, 12 NAT’L J. 886, 887 (2003). Short of bombs, missiles, and biochemical agents, we

  2. #2 peak

    Army. Indiana Infantry Regiment, 84th (1862-1865)⏎Historical Note: The

  3. #3 peak

    fer and the German Wilderness Landscape.” Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art 13.1 (1983): 4–43.⏎Wood, Christopher S.

  4. #4 peak

    reactions, you should talk with your doctor and request a vaccine with the least egg protein available<|endoftext|>United States. Army. Indiana Infantry Regiment, 84th (1862-1865) | Purdue University Libraries, Archives

  5. #5 peak

    74 Illingworth accompanied George Armstrong Custer’s expedition into the Black Hills, and he

  6. #6 peak

    protected by the Second Amendment. An object is “dangerous” when it is “likely to cause serious bodily harm.” Black’s Law Dictionary 451 (9th ed. 200

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: - A 500 words - A 500 words - A 500 words - A 500 words - A 500 words - A 500 words

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

    Phillips, M.R., Liu, H. & Zhang, Y. Cult Med Psychiatry (1999) 23: 25. doi:10.1023/A:1005462

  2. #2 peak

    iodiversity and Conservation (2004) 13: 2511. doi:10.1023/B:BIOC.00000

  3. #3 peak

    of the medical staff at Phoenixville Hospital. His office is located at 824 Main St., Suite 206.<|endoftext|>MEDIA RELEASE - "CLIMATE IMPACTS DAY

  4. #4 peak

    ute and chronic elevation of erythropoietin in the brain improves exercise performance in mice without inducing erythropoiesis. FASEB J. doi:10.1096<|endoftext|>Valentine’s Day Task Cards (2

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

  1. L7:501 excites
  2. L5:133 excites
  3. L2:1531 weakly excites
  4. L3:2080 weakly excites
  5. L6:13 weakly excites
  6. L7:566 weakly excites
  7. L0:1124 weakly suppresses
  8. L4:229 weakly excites
  9. L1:1141 weakly suppresses
  10. L2:1991 weakly excites
  11. L6:2888 weakly suppresses
  12. L2:2203 weakly excites
  13. L8:1741 weakly excites
  14. L2:122 weakly excites
  15. L5:2470 weakly excites
  16. L2:2410 weakly excites
  17. L2:2851 weakly excites
  18. L4:2950 weakly suppresses
  19. L9:2332 weakly excites
  20. L2:1587 weakly suppresses
  21. L8:566 weakly suppresses
  22. L0:2985 weakly suppresses
  23. L7:2245 weakly excites
  24. L10:1300 weakly suppresses

Feeds later layers

  1. L14:3023 suppresses
  2. L13:2196 suppresses
  3. L12:1008 suppresses
  4. L12:1281 suppresses
  5. L15:1106 suppresses
  6. L14:2013 weakly excites
  7. L17:1523 weakly suppresses
  8. L13:1513 weakly suppresses
  9. L12:1264 weakly excites gap before a year in dates
  10. L19:1822 weakly excites
  11. L22:2723 weakly excites
  12. L14:1933 weakly suppresses
  13. L15:2705 weakly suppresses
  14. L21:781 weakly excites
  15. L12:1101 weakly suppresses
  16. L16:2198 weakly suppresses
  17. L13:1725 weakly excites
  18. L22:1852 weakly excites
  19. L13:2971 weakly excites
  20. L23:997 weakly excites
  21. L25:984 weakly excites
  22. L14:2560 weakly suppresses
  23. L18:1724 weakly excites
  24. L13:774 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 -0.89 and -0.851 values between -0.65 and -0.603 values between -0.52 and -0.487 values between -0.48 and -0.442 values between -0.44 and -0.4012 values between -0.40 and -0.3635 values between -0.36 and -0.3242 values between -0.32 and -0.2878 values between -0.28 and -0.24102 values between -0.24 and -0.19145 values between -0.19 and -0.15238 values between -0.15 and -0.11304 values between -0.11 and -0.07399 values between -0.07 and -0.03532 values between -0.03 and 0.01456 values between 0.01 and 0.05392 values between 0.05 and 0.09364 values between 0.09 and 0.13241 values between 0.13 and 0.18174 values between 0.18 and 0.22134 values between 0.22 and 0.2684 values between 0.26 and 0.3073 values between 0.30 and 0.3430 values between 0.34 and 0.3817 values between 0.38 and 0.4217 values between 0.42 and 0.469 values between 0.46 and 0.508 values between 0.50 and 0.554 values between 0.59 and 0.631 values between 0.63 and 0.672 values between 0.67 and 0.711 values between 0.71 and 0.75offnegativepositiveoften

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. izontal
  2. 也只有
  3. cia
  4. )sender
  5. asses
  6. жу
  7. (comp
  8. igi
  9. ôm
  10. /go

Suppresses

  1. down
  2. doub
  3. ly
  4. ik
  5. translation
  6. lo
  7. egr
  8. 睛
  9. 王子
  10. 阳光