'that' after a noun, 'being' in passives
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. 15 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 responds in two ways: it fires on the word 'that' right after a noun that starts a describing clause, like 'the financial issues that break us'. It goes strongly negative on 'being' in phrases like 'the behavior being pressured'. Turning it up or down gave mostly unrelated, looping text.
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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from Kiku Hughes.⏎Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II.⏎
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ability to speak a first language, are thought to be due to the inbuilt genetic process. It is said that children naturally become interested in the sounds and signs that they see around them and the ability to speak ‘unfolds’.⏎Although
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can easily incorporate this kind of activity into your daily regimen. Simple activities for preschoolers must enable them to discover about shades, shapes, as well as other items that interest them.⏎A deck of playing cards can be reworked right into a number
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then.) He had just gotten his PhD at Caltech under Richard Feynman, and was busy trying to understand the “zoo” of hadronic particles that were being discovered in the 1960’s. (Side note:
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This teaches your tween about the importance of communicating about money.⏎#5. Talk About Financial Options.⏎One of the hardest parts of life is encountering the financial issues that break us. Talking about the different
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Weingarten: Most of our educational systems have been created to an industrial model. They were built to ensure that kids could competently deal with the routine tasks that were necessary in factories. Some kids would succeed in a different way; but in
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'm writing the problem I'm thinking about, and I'm trying to consider the problem I'm writing about I'm referring to, that I'm referring to? I'm Thinking of (I'm Thinking of) That I'm Writing?
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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child attempting to reproduce them based on a child’s own free will. Peer pressure is the act of one child coercing another to follow suit. Often the behavior being pressured is questionable or taboo, such as smoking cigarettes or drinking alcohol.⏎Peer Pressure
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the decimal and cents to the right of the decimal. To add decimals, simply line up the decimal points of the amounts of money that are being added. When you have added the amounts of money, be sure to place the
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language around 1600, the word meant to cook something slowly and gently in water that is just below the boiling point. Usually eggs are what's being cooked when "coddle" is used in this sense today, but when
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More recently, a myopic focus on growth has created a dream that promotes unbridled consumption, but the “more is better” version actually harms the very things we cherish. It is unsustainable personally, as it draws American families into a work
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
- L14:2528 suppresses
- L14:2055 suppresses preposition after a noun phrase
- L14:492 suppresses
- L7:2503 suppresses
- L9:2312 excites 'to' after a noun (a role to play)
- L12:1667 excites
- L13:1234 suppresses
- L12:2971 suppresses
- L12:2722 suppresses
- L13:1785 suppresses content nouns in health and advice text
- L4:73 suppresses
- L4:470 weakly suppresses
- L13:1173 weakly excites
- L10:1162 weakly excites
- L14:2666 weakly suppresses
- L10:1256 weakly excites
- L11:1505 weakly excites
- L6:958 weakly suppresses
- L14:1849 weakly excites
- L9:865 weakly suppresses
- L10:353 weakly excites
- L14:2265 weakly excites
- L13:2373 weakly suppresses
- L7:2751 weakly suppresses
Feeds later layers
- L19:2179 suppresses
- L16:1381 suppresses
- L18:1672 suppresses
- L16:2806 suppresses
- L21:2602 suppresses
- L20:2132 suppresses "the" starting an object noun phrase
- L19:1235 suppresses
- L22:2064 suppresses
- L17:2783 suppresses
- L18:2378 suppresses
- L17:2557 suppresses
- L16:550 suppresses
- L19:1483 suppresses
- L18:1342 suppresses
- L21:2465 suppresses
- L21:1422 suppresses
- L16:2494 weakly suppresses
- L17:1884 weakly suppresses
- L20:1324 weakly suppresses
- L19:2621 weakly suppresses
- L17:1918 weakly suppresses
- L21:2163 weakly suppresses
- L18:1520 weakly suppresses
- L17:451 weakly suppresses
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
- alley
- estyle
- assium
- ucer
- образом
- 裾
- .initState
- egal
- ande
- unday
Suppresses
- Boards
- ICATION
- 所
- whom
- 暄
- ronic
- 所需要
- 所带来的
- contemplated
- 所致