'War' after 'World'
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 fires on the word 'War' in phrases like 'World War I' and 'World War II', where it is the word right after 'World'. Turning it up did not make the model talk about wars, so the text it produces does not show this link.
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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exciting phases in European contemporary history, including its fine art development. It comprises the last quarter of the 19th century and the decades leading up to World War II. The era is characterized by dramatic transformations in not just technological and industrial developments
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another ship from another war would join the Cormoran in its water Apra Harbor grave. The Tokai Maru was a Japanese passenger-cargo ship before World War II, but after the outbreak of World War II it became a transport for the
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Consequently, the South became a place of economic and racial turmoil, and African Americans were desperate to find some relief. The promise of jobs in northern factories during World War I provided African Americans an opportunity to escape the harsh realities of the South. Between
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in 1824, and Singapore became one of the British Straits Settlements in 1826. Occupied by the Japanese during World War II, Singapore became independent from the United Kingdom in 1963 and
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yarrow. It’s used as a curative remedy for malaria, jaundice, and liver disorders throughout the world.⏎Yarrow was even used during World War II in England when the country experienced a shortage of needed medical supplies. Officials encouraged
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leagues' first night baseball game was played in Cincinnati. (The Reds defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1.)⏎In 1941, in World War II, the German battleship Bismarck sank the British battle cruiser Hood
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 a person and the number of a person and the number of their age (in years) and their gender (in their gender) and their sex (in their gender) and their gender (in their gender) and their sex
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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was inaccurate, or both. Most efforts focused on option two since there were several other observations of the Sun that supported the current solar models. To explain the solar neutrino problem, one theory is that neutrinos undergo oscillations. Simply put,
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Yes, you heard it right!⏎How Low-Carb Diet Risks Heart-Health:⏎A study, presented at the European Society of Cardiology (ECC) Congress 2018, found low-car
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a given line not through the focus, called the directrix, a parabola is the locus of points such that the distance to the focus equals the distance to the directrix. [Adopt
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is considered to be an approximation of the other. The MSE can be described as the mean of the square of the differences in the pixel values between the corresponding pixels of the two images.⏎Express
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
- L6:1693 weakly suppresses
- L7:2766 weakly excites
- L4:543 weakly excites
- L10:1281 weakly suppresses
- L7:743 weakly excites
- L6:2033 weakly excites
- L7:555 weakly suppresses
- L8:1427 weakly suppresses
- L4:2442 weakly suppresses
- L7:2104 weakly suppresses
- L9:2863 weakly suppresses
- L5:1396 weakly excites
- L7:2727 weakly suppresses
- L6:2499 weakly suppresses
- L5:2244 weakly excites
- L7:2715 weakly excites
- L2:175 weakly excites
- L11:1711 weakly suppresses
- L10:1670 weakly excites
- L9:2095 weakly excites
- L9:2932 weakly excites
- L6:2665 weakly suppresses
- L10:1833 weakly excites
- L3:129 weakly excites
Feeds later layers
- L17:2227 weakly excites
- L13:912 weakly suppresses
- L27:2738 weakly excites unclear: fragments of split words
- L15:1425 weakly suppresses
- L24:2174 weakly excites
- L25:2213 weakly excites
- L15:2727 weakly suppresses
- L13:172 weakly excites
- L16:2367 weakly excites
- L14:1002 weakly excites
- L19:2853 weakly excites
- L13:2977 weakly suppresses
- L22:1878 weakly excites
- L16:2820 weakly excites
- L14:1875 weakly suppresses
- L25:801 weakly suppresses
- L24:205 weakly suppresses
- L20:1416 weakly excites
- L21:682 weakly excites
- L14:843 weakly suppresses
- L13:1584 weakly suppresses
- L19:599 weakly suppresses
- L13:393 weakly suppresses
- L20:1048 weakly suppresses word before a quantity or number
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
- 为企业
- UNITY
- itty
- Grimm
- .Microsoft
- iverse
- ADX
- verity
- haust
- Omar
Suppresses
- done
- nameLabel
- one
- ones
- onas
- asts
- ste
- Capitals
- SetName
- ock