'the' after a preposition or verb
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. 13 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 lights up on the word 'the' (or a similar word like 'combined') when it comes right after a preposition or verb, such as 'substitute for the', 'quality of the' or 'accountable for the'. It is waiting for a noun phrase to follow. Turning it up gave loosely connected, wandering text with no clear topic change.
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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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: I have been writing down the first post: 1.143577550579790543603159033844094571
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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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
- L8:2257 suppresses
- L10:669 excites
- L10:120 weakly suppresses
- L4:2640 weakly suppresses
- L12:2287 weakly suppresses
- L1:1158 weakly suppresses
- L12:2884 weakly suppresses
- L11:497 weakly suppresses
- L11:2766 weakly suppresses
- L12:850 weakly excites
- L12:1956 weakly suppresses
- L5:1133 weakly excites
- L4:654 weakly suppresses
- L2:1467 weakly suppresses
- L8:2528 weakly excites
- L8:1179 weakly suppresses
- L5:1882 weakly excites
- L10:1290 weakly excites
- L11:2465 weakly suppresses
- L0:1717 weakly excites
- L10:1101 weakly suppresses
- L4:390 weakly excites "and" joining abstract nouns
- L12:1286 weakly suppresses
- L11:2840 weakly excites 'in' after a size measurement
Feeds later layers
- L14:727 excites
- L17:1959 excites
- L18:883 excites
- L16:940 excites
- L15:2736 excites
- L16:1296 excites
- L14:2492 excites
- L16:601 suppresses
- L15:1226 excites
- L18:306 excites
- L21:1921 excites
- L15:1234 excites
- L19:566 suppresses
- L19:1523 excites
- L14:1667 suppresses
- L16:307 suppresses
- L21:2105 excites
- L19:3054 excites
- L14:335 weakly suppresses
- L15:2496 weakly suppresses
- L17:1592 weakly excites
- L18:2370 weakly excites
- L22:1620 weakly excites "the" after abstract verbs like allows for
- L17:430 weakly excites
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
- של
- >&
- >>&
- management
- ind
- uzu
- ��
- hei
- еств
- activities
Suppresses
- ː
- intree
- caster
- ||⏎
- tố
- 做到
- 做的
- 听得
- 作了
- 说得