Neuron Explorer

Qwen3-0.6B

'the' after named as or chosen as

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 fires on the word 'the' when it comes right after a phrase like 'named', 'chosen as', 'became' or 'made it', where a title or superlative noun is about to follow. Turned up, the model's text drifted into unrelated topics and lists.

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

    25 featured films to be preserved in the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, and in 2008, the American Film Institute named it the greatest animated film of all time.⏎Disney film historian J.B. Kaufman,

  2. #2 peak

    leading and supporting students as they decide on a major and eventual career path. She also knows how to match students with high quality internship opportunities. She has been named the Harry W. Rodgers, III Distinguished Teacher of the Year (Loyola

  3. #3 peak

    - About this particular statue of the Infant KingHow did this image come to be chosen as the symbol of, and the object of, devotion at the Shrine of Christ the King

  4. #4 peak

    within five years. Part V describes the importance of the Metales y Derivados case for policy and community activism across borders, as well as its status as the poster child for the failure of NAFTA as a model for protecting public health and the

  5. #5 peak

    productivity of H. cervicornis. H. musciformis’⏎successfully invaded into the same niche, and replaced H. cervicornis⏎as the species most often found attached or entangled on the upper branches<|endoftext|>This site is

  6. #6 peak

    its early days as a directory for college students. In addition to personal pages messaging, it handles groups, events, and a selling marketplace. Hollywood even made it the subject of the movie The Social Network. By the way, social networks are a

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: " ' ' " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " "

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

    spontaneous outburst of violence in Tulsa.⏎In “Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and The Rise of White Suprem

  2. #2 peak

    , and sorghum.⏎The names laetrile, Laetrile, vitamin B-17, and amygdalin are often used in place of one another, but they are not the same product. The chemical make-up of La

  3. #3 peak

    posed James II as England’s rightful king and cutting access to the lucrative Spanish trade.⏎England, Holland and Prussia supported the Habsburg Empire’s rival claimant to the Spanish throne, Archduke Charles. In 1701

  4. #4 peak

    economic system caused Albania to lag far behind its neighbors in terms of economic development.⏎After Hoxha died in 1985, his hand-picked successor, Ramiz Alia, who became party leader while retaining his post as titular

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. L5:2448 suppresses
  2. L11:104 excites
  3. L11:2662 suppresses
  4. L11:1373 suppresses
  5. L5:535 excites
  6. L9:1249 suppresses
  7. L6:2604 suppresses
  8. L11:505 suppresses
  9. L8:1650 excites
  10. L10:1504 suppresses
  11. L6:2079 suppresses
  12. L11:679 excites
  13. L9:1553 weakly suppresses
  14. L10:1063 weakly suppresses
  15. L9:608 weakly excites
  16. L11:1450 weakly suppresses
  17. L10:2601 weakly excites
  18. L8:2764 weakly suppresses
  19. L11:2778 weakly suppresses
  20. L11:2994 weakly excites
  21. L11:1793 weakly excites
  22. L11:1649 weakly excites
  23. L7:1229 weakly suppresses
  24. L10:673 weakly suppresses

Feeds later layers

  1. L15:2387 suppresses
  2. L14:2001 excites
  3. L14:321 excites
  4. L14:1285 suppresses
  5. L17:3031 excites
  6. L14:2140 weakly excites
  7. L16:2111 weakly excites
  8. L20:1696 weakly suppresses
  9. L14:2885 weakly suppresses
  10. L16:821 weakly excites
  11. L18:2995 weakly excites
  12. L17:240 weakly excites
  13. L17:636 weakly excites
  14. L16:1771 weakly excites
  15. L19:1967 weakly excites
  16. L21:1008 weakly excites
  17. L21:1211 weakly suppresses
  18. L13:1655 weakly excites
  19. L18:2347 weakly excites
  20. L14:3012 weakly excites
  21. L16:1492 weakly excites
  22. L24:2914 weakly suppresses
  23. L25:1468 weakly excites
  24. L22:2930 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 -2.38 and -2.222 values between -1.74 and -1.582 values between -1.42 and -1.261 values between -1.26 and -1.101 values between -1.10 and -0.941 values between -0.94 and -0.788 values between -0.78 and -0.6239 values between -0.62 and -0.46185 values between -0.46 and -0.30740 values between -0.30 and -0.142105 values between -0.14 and 0.03621 values between 0.03 and 0.1999 values between 0.19 and 0.3537 values between 0.35 and 0.5124 values between 0.51 and 0.6710 values between 0.67 and 0.836 values between 0.83 and 0.999 values between 0.99 and 1.153 values between 1.15 and 1.315 values between 1.31 and 1.473 values between 1.47 and 1.631 values between 1.63 and 1.791 values between 2.27 and 2.431 values between 2.43 and 2.591 values between 3.07 and 3.232 values between 3.88 and 4.04offnegativepositiveoften

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. 替代
  2. ael
  3. opic
  4. eer
  5. orph
  6. 更换
  7. asting
  8. 嬗
  9. 取代
  10. TextEditingController

Suppresses

  1. nữa
  2. ]+\
  3. inc
  4. 还包括
  5. ince
  6. INCLUDED
  7. clud
  8. addItem
  9. Normal
  10. �