the digit zero inside numbers and times
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. 11 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
Fires on the digit 0 inside a number, especially in clock times like "12:00" or "8:00 am" and in codes like "6.00". Turning it up made the model ramble about temperatures and repeat itself, which does not match the trigger.
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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eaten between 6:30am and 7:30am and often consists of rice or soup. Lunch is generally eaten between 12:00noon and 1:00pm. Many people eat out, grabbing
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, the outgoing National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of America expelled the militantly Marxist Socialist Party of Michigan with its approximately 6.000 members, ostensibly for the state party organization's attacks on religion and repud
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much weight,<|endoftext|>Modern China (HIST*3320)⏎Code and section: HIST*3320*01⏎Term: Fall 2019⏎Instructor: Norman Smith
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6 pp. 125–135. doi:10.1112/S0025579300008718.<|endoftext|>The Air We Breathe: Are New
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2021 @ 8:00 am - 6:00 pm⏎An event every day that begins at 8:00 am, repeating until Friday, July 9, 2021
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heart health. We mustn’t ignore what we eat and how active we are, which also plays a vital role in maintaining good health.<|endoftext|>12/08 | Who was the Roman governor of Judea during the time leading up to
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: and I know I'm not, and I'm sorry, and I'm sorry for being... I am not, I'm sorry, and I'm sorry, and I'm sorry, and I'm sorry, and... and that's a
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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to abnormal conditions further reduces the vaccine’s power.⏎While exposure to any inappropriate conditions can affect the potency of refrigerated vaccines, a single exposure to freezing temperatures (0° C [32° F] or colder) will destroy some. For
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reading this topic⏎0 members, 0 guests, 0 anonymous users<|endoftext|>The JCTC applauds the action by the FDA to monitor
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research in the field supporting a link between vocabulary and comprehension.”⏎On a scale of 0-500, fourth-graders scored 224 and eighth-gr
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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
- L9:977 suppresses the last digit of a decade year
- L8:579 weakly suppresses
- L10:848 weakly suppresses
- L7:1011 weakly suppresses
- L5:854 weakly suppresses
- L5:2447 weakly excites
- L10:2954 weakly suppresses
- L8:290 weakly excites
- L5:91 weakly excites
- L4:498 weakly suppresses
- L8:13 weakly suppresses
- L10:1417 weakly suppresses
- L5:3002 weakly suppresses
- L7:2690 weakly excites
- L8:546 weakly suppresses
- L3:1381 weakly excites
- L8:14 weakly excites
- L6:2339 weakly suppresses "as" completing an "as ... as" comparison
- L9:1879 weakly excites
- L7:2638 weakly suppresses
- L7:2092 weakly excites
- L9:1022 weakly excites 'stem' in stem cell phrases
- L2:2765 weakly suppresses
- L7:2506 weakly suppresses
Feeds later layers
- L14:843 suppresses
- L16:177 excites zero digit inside dates and codes
- L17:753 suppresses
- L15:1012 excites
- L15:1250 weakly suppresses
- L15:443 weakly excites
- L14:542 weakly excites
- L12:1854 weakly suppresses
- L16:1012 weakly excites 'one' before 'of' in 'is one of the'
- L12:961 weakly excites the zero after a decimal point
- L12:641 weakly suppresses
- L12:370 weakly suppresses
- L19:843 weakly excites
- L16:1020 weakly excites
- L17:872 weakly suppresses
- L15:42 weakly excites
- L14:2782 weakly suppresses
- L16:808 weakly suppresses
- L15:587 weakly suppresses
- L17:213 weakly excites
- L17:2169 weakly suppresses
- L21:2093 weakly excites
- L15:2598 weakly suppresses
- L25:2890 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
- protagon
- чи
- xaa
- */}⏎
- 单元
- .Unit
- oze
- 经开
- alike
- 镅
Suppresses
- tern
- 杖
- Pearce
- TERN
- iculty
- ensions
- Legion
- wiped
- 一趟
- ijn