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Qwen3-0.6B

"the" inside institution names

A neuron in layer 15 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 sits inside the name of an organisation or journal, such as "Proceedings of the National Academy" or "Center for the Global Environment". The negative side shows up on hyphens and "of" in other spots, but those are weaker and less clear. Turning it up did not produce a clear theme in the model's writing.

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

    ational Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy as Probes of Bulk and Surface Compositions of Size-Resolved Sea Spray Aerosol Particles,” Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2013, 15, 620

  2. #2 peak

    ons’ performance was on a par with that previously reported in baboons for this type of complex task. Their study, which is published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), is the first to identify a non-pr

  3. #3 peak

    people vigilant and careful,” said psychologist Jack van Honk of Utrecht University in the Netherlands, who led the study published May 24 in* Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences*.⏎In the study, a few dozen females received half

  4. #4 peak

    culture to think of heat as risky,” said Bernstein, a pediatrician at Boston Children’s Hospital and co-director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard’s School of Public Health.⏎As global temperatures rise and extreme

  5. #5 peak

    <|endoftext|>Improved Screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences⏎The Institute for Innovation & Implementation at the University of Maryland School of Social Work has partnered with Harvard's Center for the Developing Child's Frontiers of Innovation Community to develop a new project aimed at better

  6. #6 peak

    Wageningen University and Research, the University of Groningen, Utrecht University, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) on research into

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

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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

    scale of 0-500, fourth-graders scored 224 and eighth-graders scored 274. The national average for fourth- and eighth-graders was 217 and 263, respectively

  2. #2 peak

    produced by the parotid glands is in nature, and enters the through the after passing through the which are prominent in the gland. Despite being the largest pair of glands, only approximately 25% of saliva is produced by the glands.⏎

  3. #3 peak

    thereof).Please provide resources as required by APA standards.⏎https://mynursingpaper.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-1559720319884139

  4. #4 peak

    .newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Karl_Marx<|endoftext|>Credit: Andrei Marincas | Shutterstock

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. L10:77 suppresses
  2. L9:7 excites
  3. L8:30 excites blank slot right before a number
  4. L9:1515 excites line break splitting a phrase
  5. L14:300 suppresses
  6. L4:1097 suppresses
  7. L6:0 excites
  8. L9:61 excites
  9. L10:29 suppresses
  10. L8:11 excites
  11. L5:5 suppresses digit after a label like paper or type
  12. L7:195 suppresses 'of' in set noun phrases
  13. L6:249 excites
  14. L14:348 suppresses
  15. L10:424 suppresses
  16. L11:31 suppresses
  17. L13:1046 suppresses 'in' or 'on' ending a phrase
  18. L14:493 excites
  19. L14:1018 excites
  20. L4:312 weakly excites 'that' after 'the way' or 'the first time'
  21. L14:915 weakly suppresses
  22. L4:513 weakly suppresses
  23. L13:132 weakly excites "of" after a noun
  24. L10:533 weakly excites

Feeds later layers

  1. L16:689 excites 'the' in fixed phrases like 'ahead of the curve'
  2. L16:337 excites
  3. L16:1258 excites
  4. L16:1003 excites
  5. L16:995 excites
  6. L27:262 excites
  7. L18:2887 excites
  8. L17:359 excites
  9. L16:992 excites
  10. L17:390 weakly suppresses
  11. L17:1555 weakly excites
  12. L19:373 weakly excites
  13. L17:146 weakly suppresses period after abbreviations and dates
  14. L16:1020 weakly excites
  15. L16:3040 weakly excites
  16. L17:137 weakly excites
  17. L16:2000 weakly excites
  18. L18:2189 weakly suppresses
  19. L20:2896 weakly suppresses
  20. L16:538 weakly excites
  21. L18:70 weakly excites
  22. L16:2652 weakly excites
  23. L20:1287 weakly excites
  24. L26:1941 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 -3.30 and -3.063 values between -2.81 and -2.574 values between -2.57 and -2.322 values between -2.32 and -2.085 values between -2.08 and -1.845 values between -1.84 and -1.5912 values between -1.59 and -1.3525 values between -1.35 and -1.1029 values between -1.10 and -0.86104 values between -0.86 and -0.61388 values between -0.61 and -0.371076 values between -0.37 and -0.131489 values between -0.13 and 0.12367 values between 0.12 and 0.36140 values between 0.36 and 0.6186 values between 0.61 and 0.8556 values between 0.85 and 1.1029 values between 1.10 and 1.3436 values between 1.34 and 1.5815 values between 1.58 and 1.838 values between 1.83 and 2.0710 values between 2.07 and 2.326 values between 2.32 and 2.562 values between 2.56 and 2.813 values between 2.81 and 3.053 values between 3.05 and 3.292 values between 3.29 and 3.541 values between 4.52 and 4.761 values between 6.23 and 6.47offnegativepositiveoften

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. bilt
  2. tória
  3. venida
  4. ('{{
  5. ftware
  6. présent
  7. uition
  8. bulk
  9. 琬
  10. redients

Suppresses

  1. /object
  2. /head
  3. ingly
  4. 的那个
  5. /be
  6. amento
  7. delle
  8. отметить
  9. -ul
  10. /m