Neuron Explorer

Qwen3-0.6B

mid-sentence 'also' and 'another'

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 small linking words like 'also', 'further' and 'another' when they sit between a subject and the main point of a sentence. Turning it up made the model's text drift into loose, rambling sentences that did not clearly follow the prompt.

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

    urban schools cause obesity in minority children?⏎The May 29 Baylor University study further indicates that those same overweight black and Hispanic kids are also less likely to benefit from

  2. #2 peak

    Step⏎Finally, you have followed all the steps, you will see one shortcut on the desktop.

  3. #3 peak

    LIEST STEP IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT⏎--Finding Reinforces Limitations of Using Other Cell Types in Research, Scientists Say⏎The finding, they say, also highlights one aspect of human cell biology that has not been replicated in other animal model

  4. #4 peak

    microLEDs also featured a reduced dislocation density (by 59.6%). According to

  5. #5 peak

    an acid taste, if desired, but the acid<|endoftext|>5 Tips For Having Fun With Shadows Page 2⏎Silhouettes offer another opportunity to use shadows. A silhouette is a shadow--an unlit subject.

  6. #6 peak

    The Treaty Oak has also played an important and romantic part in the history of the Lone Star State. One

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 place of art, specifically the media, in the various forms of culture, including the visual arts, the performance art, the information, the media, the information, the artifacts, the information, the forms, the stories, the information

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

    the biology of the disorder and find targets for better treatments. It’s latest in a steady stream of good news from autism researchers recently, who have

  2. #2 peak

    compact, dense collection of supersymmetric matter drifting around the universe. According to Cox’s commentary on the film, “if [a Q-ball] sat

  3. #3 peak

    ate of Mecca and the Zaidi Imamate of Sanaa. It also recounts the Turkish and British attempts to dominate the region, especially the sea route

  4. #4 peak

    promoting the rule of law, ensuring access to justice, and strengthening institutions. It is the intersection of SDG 11 and SDG 16 that

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. L10:369 strongly suppresses
  2. L9:1033 suppresses unclear: end-of-text markers and word fragments
  3. L11:1391 suppresses
  4. L7:1053 suppresses
  5. L8:269 excites
  6. L10:710 excites
  7. L8:624 excites
  8. L7:1130 excites
  9. L11:607 weakly excites
  10. L2:182 weakly suppresses
  11. L6:927 weakly suppresses
  12. L8:49 weakly excites
  13. L11:908 weakly excites
  14. L3:912 weakly excites
  15. L6:2753 weakly suppresses
  16. L7:61 weakly suppresses
  17. L11:2235 weakly excites
  18. L7:1022 weakly excites
  19. L3:2372 weakly suppresses
  20. L10:1048 weakly suppresses
  21. L4:444 weakly suppresses
  22. L3:177 weakly suppresses
  23. L5:576 weakly suppresses
  24. L2:1671 weakly suppresses

Feeds later layers

  1. L15:860 suppresses
  2. L15:2008 suppresses
  3. L13:2673 suppresses
  4. L14:1563 excites
  5. L13:2982 suppresses
  6. L14:1816 excites
  7. L13:1809 excites
  8. L14:2741 excites
  9. L14:1504 excites
  10. L17:2032 excites
  11. L16:2575 suppresses
  12. L14:2122 suppresses
  13. L13:1644 excites
  14. L14:946 weakly excites
  15. L14:2587 weakly suppresses
  16. L18:1342 weakly excites
  17. L15:3039 weakly excites
  18. L13:418 weakly suppresses
  19. L14:2324 weakly excites
  20. L16:1576 weakly suppresses
  21. L13:2216 weakly suppresses
  22. L23:2389 weakly suppresses
  23. L15:2966 weakly excites
  24. L17:1896 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 -3.94 and -3.821 values between -3.82 and -3.701 values between -3.22 and -3.101 values between -3.10 and -2.981 values between -2.98 and -2.864 values between -2.74 and -2.622 values between -2.62 and -2.503 values between -2.50 and -2.384 values between -2.38 and -2.263 values between -2.26 and -2.145 values between -2.14 and -2.025 values between -2.02 and -1.903 values between -1.90 and -1.7810 values between -1.78 and -1.6614 values between -1.66 and -1.548 values between -1.54 and -1.429 values between -1.42 and -1.3024 values between -1.30 and -1.1825 values between -1.18 and -1.0631 values between -1.06 and -0.9448 values between -0.94 and -0.8263 values between -0.82 and -0.7078 values between -0.70 and -0.5893 values between -0.58 and -0.46170 values between -0.46 and -0.34272 values between -0.34 and -0.22542 values between -0.22 and -0.101388 values between -0.10 and 0.03712 values between 0.03 and 0.15239 values between 0.15 and 0.2780 values between 0.27 and 0.3937 values between 0.39 and 0.5120 values between 0.51 and 0.637 values between 0.63 and 0.754 values between 0.75 and 0.87offnegativepositiveoften

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. room
  2. 他又
  3. icer
  4. adients
  5. 他还
  6. Footer
  7. continued
  8. uga
  9. ếu
  10. road

Suppresses

  1. ?,⏎
  2. —⏎⏎
  3. 日讯
  4. =batch
  5. 骥
  6. 亿吨
  7. --⏎
  8. '-',
  9. ?',⏎
  10. -⏎