numbers after dates and figures
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. 12 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 reacts to the spot just before a number in a date or a quantity, such as "on 13 November" or "chills or fever of 100.4". The examples are mixed, so the pattern is fuzzy. Turning it up gave text that did not clearly change.
Written by Claude from this neuron's activations and steering outputs. Confidence: low. 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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N.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T6794A21952571.en. Downloaded on 26 January⏎- Creatives: Promote your creative business and use your
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immediately:⏎- Heavy vaginal bleeding⏎- Passing blood clots⏎- Moderate or severe cramping⏎- Unusual vaginal discharge⏎- Chills or fever of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit or higher⏎The physical and emotional pain of
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will be held at the Sheraton Waikiki and Royal Hawaiian Hotels in Honolulu, Hawaii. The meeting will run from Nov. 28 through Dec. 2,
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: the number of 35000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
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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Paris Agreement on Climate Change. It was a significant move because China is considered to be the biggest source of greenhouse gases (U.S. is the second), accounting for 20.09% of the world’s emissions. In other words
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, other oca varieties have been found to contain much less iron. Oca is also an excellent source of zinc (100 grams of oca covers 12% of the daily value for zinc) and vitamin B2 (5
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
- L10:868 strongly suppresses
- L6:756 suppresses
- L6:1008 excites 'of' after a measured quantity
- L6:641 suppresses
- L11:2207 excites "of" after a noun in trademark and title phrases
- L6:1149 suppresses
- L9:292 excites unclear: weak scattered tokens
- L6:1436 excites "from" after a change in amount
- L8:853 excites slot right before a quantity
- L6:858 excites
- L6:1605 excites
- L11:1099 suppresses
- L6:1623 excites
- L10:1863 suppresses
- L8:2014 suppresses
- L8:749 suppresses
- L4:973 weakly suppresses
- L5:985 weakly excites
- L9:97 weakly excites
- L6:1888 weakly suppresses
- L8:673 weakly excites
- L6:396 weakly suppresses
- L8:69 weakly suppresses
- L4:1824 weakly suppresses
Feeds later layers
- L14:471 strongly suppresses
- L21:676 suppresses
- L15:2091 suppresses
- L21:175 suppresses
- L18:1259 suppresses
- L24:722 suppresses 'about' or 'approximately' before a number
- L17:1570 suppresses
- L17:222 suppresses
- L25:46 excites
- L19:731 suppresses
- L18:291 excites
- L19:248 excites
- L16:1043 suppresses
- L18:754 suppresses
- L19:1419 suppresses
- L18:585 suppresses
- L13:1080 suppresses
- L13:1372 suppresses number before an age or week count
- L14:641 excites
- L13:122 excites
- L26:172 suppresses
- L19:1222 suppresses
- L19:2230 suppresses
- L15:368 suppresses
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
- amate
- anus
- aket
- anova
- 蒟
- enburg
- oby
- 杓
- ến
- 交会
Suppresses
- 一百多
- 几百
- 4
- 几千
- 大约
- ancements
- isper
- 五千
- 一百
- 更大