Neuron Explorer

Qwen3-0.6B

citation punctuation inside references

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 responds to the commas, full stops and spaces that sit inside citations and bibliography entries, such as the spot right after an author's name in a reference. Turning it up did not produce a clear change in the writing.

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

    used in electronics pollutes the air with oxides of nitrogen and sulfur, components of smog and acid rain.[i]⏎[i]Farrell, Leanne, Payal Samp

  2. #2 peak

    citation below to add this definition to your bibliography:⏎"acanthosis nigricans." Definitions.net. STANDS4 LLC, 2013. Web. 23 May 2013. <http://www

  3. #3 peak

    -Struggle-For-Power-In-The-994323.html>.⏎"The Struggle for Power in the Ussr." StudyMode.com. 0<|endoftext|>Afghanistan and Colombia, half a world apart and different in

  4. #4 peak

    Struggle-For-Power-In-The-994323.html⏎"The Struggle for Power in the Ussr" StudyMode.com. 05 2012. 05 2012

  5. #5 peak

    like during former days of jazz. This fusion of music was styled in a positive manner that made it overtake rap in early ‘90s (Keyes 245). With its objective being to spread hip hop to funs that

  6. #6 peak

    past two decades. The AFL and the CIO merged and formed one organization which represented “35% of all nonagricultural workers” (Foner 374).⏎Consumer Demand Spurs Economic Growth. Rising incomes, easy credit,

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: the user could have been thinking about in a different degrees of complexity: the user could have been thinking about in a different degrees of complexity: The following is the first one pithed by the user to the next one pithed by

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

    240 pages | Cloth $55.00⏎American History / Women's Studies/Gender Studies⏎View main book page⏎Table of Contents⏎Chapter 1. Sleep Is for Sissies: Elite Males as Parag

  2. #2 peak

    interfering with activity in the RTPJ disrupts the capacity to use mental states in moral judgment, especially in the case of attempted harms.⏎Apr 16, 2010⏎Disruption of the right temporoparietal junction with

  3. #3 peak

    theory of intellectual development as the standard contemporary treatment of deductive reasoning is used as the context in which the contributors elaborate on their own perceptions.⏎Table of Contents⏎Contents: W.F. Overton, Competence and Procedures: Constraints on the Development

  4. #4 peak

    bittersweet truth about how taste works⏎Scientists have discovered an ion channel that allows taste buds to communicate with the brain.⏎Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 03:20 PM⏎taste buds

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. L8:2215 excites
  2. L9:117 suppresses
  3. L10:2748 weakly excites
  4. L9:2328 weakly excites
  5. L3:506 weakly excites
  6. L2:527 weakly excites
  7. L5:2640 weakly excites
  8. L7:1743 weakly suppresses
  9. L9:238 weakly excites
  10. L6:1993 weakly excites
  11. L8:2429 weakly suppresses
  12. L1:2342 weakly excites
  13. L6:806 weakly suppresses
  14. L3:2992 weakly suppresses
  15. L6:2217 weakly excites
  16. L10:2454 weakly excites
  17. L9:2082 weakly suppresses
  18. L4:2257 weakly suppresses
  19. L5:2501 weakly excites
  20. L9:2150 weakly excites
  21. L10:618 weakly excites
  22. L0:949 weakly suppresses
  23. L7:2354 weakly excites
  24. L2:132 weakly excites

Feeds later layers

  1. L13:2408 weakly excites
  2. L13:1513 weakly suppresses
  3. L16:2747 weakly excites
  4. L12:576 weakly suppresses 'of' in fixed phrases like table of contents
  5. L14:2180 weakly excites
  6. L17:2869 weakly suppresses
  7. L14:1103 weakly suppresses
  8. L14:2288 weakly suppresses
  9. L19:2241 weakly suppresses
  10. L13:2650 weakly suppresses
  11. L13:1622 weakly suppresses
  12. L26:377 weakly suppresses 'sh' starting a word piece
  13. L19:2277 weakly suppresses
  14. L22:1503 weakly suppresses
  15. L14:1015 weakly suppresses
  16. L21:3068 weakly suppresses
  17. L22:505 weakly suppresses
  18. L13:2085 weakly suppresses
  19. L13:780 weakly suppresses
  20. L16:1757 weakly excites
  21. L20:2961 weakly excites
  22. L19:1782 weakly suppresses end of document marker
  23. L27:322 weakly suppresses
  24. L21:1091 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 -1.29 and -1.221 values between -0.81 and -0.743 values between -0.67 and -0.615 values between -0.61 and -0.5421 values between -0.54 and -0.4730 values between -0.47 and -0.40106 values between -0.40 and -0.33198 values between -0.33 and -0.26313 values between -0.26 and -0.20540 values between -0.20 and -0.13699 values between -0.13 and -0.06834 values between -0.06 and 0.01541 values between 0.01 and 0.08337 values between 0.08 and 0.15140 values between 0.15 and 0.2269 values between 0.22 and 0.2838 values between 0.28 and 0.3513 values between 0.35 and 0.428 values between 0.42 and 0.492 values between 0.49 and 0.561 values between 0.56 and 0.631 values between 0.63 and 0.701 values between 0.83 and 0.901 values between 0.90 and 0.971 values between 0.97 and 1.042 values between 1.24 and 1.312 values between 1.38 and 1.45offnegativepositiveoften

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. ensed
  2. ียว
  3. artz
  4. elyn
  5. -sub
  6. .dtd
  7. =sub
  8. _HS
  9. ubs
  10. Sub

Suppresses

  1. 族自治州
  2. amphetamine
  3. роз
  4. 供大家
  5. 事實
  6. 经
  7. wort
  8. leigh
  9. データ
  10. NYSE