Neuron Explorer

Qwen3-0.6B

gap before a year in citations

A neuron in layer 13 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 blank spot just before the year in author-date citations such as "(Castaneda 1998)" or "(Courneya, Estabrooks & Nigg 1997)". Turning it up or down did not change the text in a way that relates to citations.

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

    where_x, float where_y, float where_z);⏎void deallocate_model(model_3d_ref kill_this);⏎The compiler doesn't read your code like this

  2. #2 peak

    eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.⏎The state of Wyoming did not concur and recommended further work before a⏎determination was made (Stephanson 1992).

  3. #3 peak

    by the tour operator. It ensures safeguards and security of passengers and their luggages and provides remedies against damages to passengers (Van Hoof and Pennings, 2018).⏎Air Transport Law: Air transport law legislation aims safety of

  4. #4 peak

    exercise program tend to be the individuals who fail to realize their exercise intentions…⏎(Marcus, Forsyth, Stone, Dubbert, McKenzie, Dunn & Blair 2000) This lack of physical activity among the elderly is of even

  5. #5 peak

    ⏎f :: Bool -> [Int]⏎f b = if b then xs else ⏎-- With library⏎g :: Bool -> [Int]⏎g = mwhen xs⏎See? It’s an amazing 14 characters shorter!⏎The current version

  6. #6 peak

    intention has generally been insignificant among older and younger adults. (Courneya, Estabrooks & Nigg 1997) Unlike attitude, which tends to consistently account for approximately

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: I have been thinking about the idea of a 2000 year ago a human being have 2000 years of freedom, a human being have 2000 years of freedom. a human being have 2

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

    disappear when solutions are available for black holes embedded in arbitrary backgrounds.⏎|Original language||English (US)|⏎|Number of pages||12|⏎|Journal||Classical and Quantum Gravity|⏎|State||Published - Jul 7 2

  2. #2 peak

    access all content.<|endoftext|>Great Slaty becomes World's Largest Woodpecker as Ivory Billed Goes Extinct⏎22 November 2021 | Vibhav peri | Crises⏎The Great Slaty Woodpecker

  3. #3 peak

    of Text Reinterpretation Skill.⏎Bonitatibus, Gary; Beal, Carole R.⏎Four studies investigated when children became able to detect that the words

  4. #4 peak

    active components of DST can be replicated in other school environments.⏎Source: Health Behavior and Policy Review, Volume 8, Number 4, July 2021, pp. 281

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. L9:1159 suppresses
  2. L10:406 excites
  3. L10:2372 excites
  4. L3:436 excites
  5. L12:1535 excites
  6. L6:276 suppresses
  7. L12:2178 excites
  8. L7:244 excites
  9. L6:425 excites
  10. L2:1642 weakly excites
  11. L10:893 weakly suppresses
  12. L1:1878 weakly suppresses
  13. L10:1002 weakly excites
  14. L11:1479 weakly suppresses
  15. L11:1342 weakly excites
  16. L6:1775 weakly suppresses
  17. L3:488 weakly suppresses
  18. L1:919 weakly suppresses
  19. L6:514 weakly suppresses
  20. L10:487 weakly excites
  21. L11:2244 weakly excites
  22. L10:1275 weakly excites
  23. L12:1136 weakly suppresses
  24. L11:2780 weakly excites

Feeds later layers

  1. L15:2095 excites
  2. L16:2162 excites
  3. L16:1337 excites
  4. L18:2343 excites
  5. L17:2174 suppresses
  6. L14:1924 excites
  7. L18:1524 excites
  8. L26:236 excites
  9. L15:694 suppresses
  10. L16:1968 excites
  11. L16:650 suppresses
  12. L14:653 weakly suppresses
  13. L15:1893 weakly excites
  14. L18:862 weakly excites hedges like 'it turns out' and 'if any'
  15. L17:2586 weakly suppresses
  16. L20:844 weakly excites
  17. L14:726 weakly excites
  18. L18:1420 weakly excites
  19. L14:257 weakly excites
  20. L14:2363 weakly suppresses
  21. L19:1711 weakly excites
  22. L15:2284 weakly excites
  23. L16:949 weakly suppresses
  24. L21:1059 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 -2.92 and -2.761 values between -2.11 and -1.951 values between -1.79 and -1.631 values between -1.30 and -1.142 values between -0.98 and -0.824 values between -0.82 and -0.6612 values between -0.66 and -0.49117 values between -0.49 and -0.33748 values between -0.33 and -0.172422 values between -0.17 and -0.01525 values between -0.01 and 0.1643 values between 0.16 and 0.3212 values between 0.32 and 0.484 values between 0.48 and 0.643 values between 0.64 and 0.803 values between 0.80 and 0.972 values between 0.97 and 1.132 values between 1.13 and 1.291 values between 1.29 and 1.451 values between 1.45 and 1.611 values between 2.26 and 2.421 values between 2.75 and 2.911 values between 3.40 and 3.56offnegativepositiveoften

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. ,json
  2. wert
  3. )⏎⏎⏎
  4. ียม
  5. يف
  6. ) ⏎ ⏎ ⏎
  7. 纶
  8. licher
  9. 这是一个
  10. oref

Suppresses

  1. %'⏎
  2. igsaw
  3. orphic
  4. соглас
  5. thử
  6. %";⏎
  7. éli
  8. ปรากฏ
  9. %'
  10. 自由