Neuron Explorer

Qwen3-0.6B

opening parenthesis after a name or term

A neuron in layer 12 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 lights up on the open bracket that comes right after a name or term, like a politician's party in brackets or an abbreviation tucked after a word. When it was turned up, the model's writing got stuck in loops and repeated phrases rather than saying anything clearly related.

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

    the pointers is larger, this value may be positive or negative.<|endoftext|>Think of your body like a car. Where the muscles are the shock systems and the skeleton (joints/bones) is the frame of the car. The job of the

  2. #2 peak

    the electric current,⏎- V is the voltage.⏎(Note: this is not true where the impedance is complex)⏎|This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia (view authors).|<|endoftext|>Of the moon that is! The start of 2

  3. #3 peak

    morning, Bible is scheduled to testify at a Capitol Hill hearing before the Senate Agriculture Committee, which is considering the carbon-farming legislation. Introduced by senators Mike Braun (R-Indiana) and Debbie Stabenow (D-Michigan), the

  4. #4 peak

    equivalent ... )⏎The Amplitude response looks somehow like this :⏎Fig.4: Measured Amplitude Response S21⏎You will notice, that the maximum (fs) will move while the minimum (fp) remains constant.⏎With the short

  5. #5 peak

    . On the same day, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a study reviewing financial education research priorities for America’s youth.⏎Congressmen Bill Foster (D-IL) and French Hill (R-AR) both introduced H.

  6. #6 peak

    Following is the sequence:⏎- Chinta (Anxiety)⏎- Asha (Hope)⏎- Shraddha (Rever

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: I want to be able to do something, so I need to think about something. I want to be able to do something... I want to be able to do something... I want to be able to do something... I want to be

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

    San Tan Allergy & Asthma can help determine whether your (or your child’s) symptoms may be related to a food allergy or not and can

  2. #2 peak

    913|⏎|Red List Category & Criteria:||Endangered B1ab(i,ii,iii,v) ver 3.1|⏎|Reviewer(s):||Butchart, S. & Symes, A.|⏎|Contrib

  3. #3 peak

    title Augusta.⏎Titus, in full Titus Vespasianus Augustus, original name Titus Flavius Vespasianus, (born Dec. 30, 39 ce—died Sept.

  4. #4 peak

    usoleums while reflecting on life.⏎Maybe the attraction of visiting an abandoned city is a similar feeling — the emptiness and loneliness, wondering where these people (or their offspring) might be now.⏎Dir Journal

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. L10:66 suppresses opening parenthesis after a citation or term
  2. L4:64 excites
  3. L8:354 weakly excites opening parenthesis before a citation year
  4. L9:1390 weakly suppresses
  5. L3:57 weakly excites
  6. L5:330 weakly excites opening parenthesis after a noun
  7. L1:2324 weakly suppresses
  8. L9:2010 weakly suppresses
  9. L1:822 weakly excites
  10. L9:1055 weakly suppresses
  11. L1:1857 weakly suppresses
  12. L10:2391 weakly excites "not" in "if not" contrasts
  13. L7:104 weakly excites
  14. L6:915 weakly excites
  15. L10:2556 weakly excites
  16. L3:218 weakly suppresses
  17. L6:1968 weakly excites
  18. L11:2158 weakly excites
  19. L4:85 weakly suppresses
  20. L4:3040 weakly excites
  21. L10:1041 weakly suppresses opening parenthesis before phone or code
  22. L11:50 weakly excites
  23. L7:13 weakly suppresses 'the' after 'member of' or 'one of'
  24. L2:2057 weakly suppresses

Feeds later layers

  1. L16:2289 excites 'or' linking two alternatives
  2. L14:2156 excites opening parenthesis after a term
  3. L16:574 suppresses
  4. L14:2276 excites opening bracket after a term or number
  5. L22:144 excites
  6. L16:1065 weakly excites
  7. L13:958 weakly excites
  8. L13:820 weakly suppresses comma after an introductory phrase
  9. L17:2274 weakly excites
  10. L14:1265 weakly excites
  11. L17:882 weakly suppresses
  12. L22:973 weakly excites comma after a full date
  13. L13:1108 weakly excites
  14. L19:1864 weakly excites
  15. L19:2576 weakly excites
  16. L23:1619 weakly excites
  17. L18:2544 weakly excites
  18. L15:2486 weakly excites bracket or parenthesis inside a quote
  19. L24:1598 weakly excites
  20. L17:1577 weakly suppresses
  21. L21:1807 weakly excites
  22. L17:1708 weakly excites
  23. L13:933 weakly suppresses
  24. L16:2425 weakly excites

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 -2.76 and -2.511 values between -1.75 and -1.501 values between -1.50 and -1.253 values between -1.25 and -1.001 values between -1.00 and -0.757 values between -0.75 and -0.50101 values between -0.50 and -0.241950 values between -0.24 and 0.011714 values between 0.01 and 0.2687 values between 0.26 and 0.5111 values between 0.51 and 0.7610 values between 0.76 and 1.027 values between 1.02 and 1.273 values between 1.52 and 1.771 values between 2.02 and 2.281 values between 2.28 and 2.531 values between 3.28 and 3.542 values between 3.54 and 3.792 values between 3.79 and 4.041 values between 4.54 and 4.791 values between 4.79 and 5.051 values between 6.05 and 6.311 values between 7.06 and 7.31offnegativepositiveoften

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. част
  2. icc
  3. 송
  4. hop
  5. ño
  6. pired
  7. -sizing
  8. roy
  9. CLOSE
  10. 人造

Suppresses

  1. editors
  2.         
  3. FRING
  4. istrates
  5.   
  6.  
  7. ofil
  8. legislators
  9.     
  10. Beirut