'that' starting a clause after a noun
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. 16 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 'that' when it introduces a statement after a noun, such as 'the notion that', 'the maxim that' or 'a dream that'. Turning it up made the model get stuck repeating words, so the steering output is not very informative.
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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the system, such as it was, took care of the people (at least some of them).⏎Eventually, Golway argues, Tammany Hall introduced the notion that the government had a social welfare role to play. Laissez-faire capitalism
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Legislature in regards that might be put forth that would direct all the school districts in the state as to how they should address bullying
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Yom Ha' Shoah is not just a Jewish event — it touches everyone,” she says.⏎“Yom Ha' Shoah is a wake-up call that genocide is happening now and we have the power to stop it.”⏎The event is
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at Austin): There's no principle built into the laws of nature that says theoretical physicists have to be happy.⏎NARRATOR: It's a game-changing perspective that opens up a whole new world of possibilities. Coming up: what if new univers
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what comes. These creatively structured poems explore what it means to cultivate respect for self and others, the meaning of good qualities, and to hold fast to the maxim that ‘anything is possible.’⏎Because Brave. A Book about Courage is authored by
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: and to the point: and to the point of notice, and to the point of notice to the point of notice that to the point of being, but, then, to this, to the point of being) etc. etc. and
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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samples incorrectly, an oil-analysis program is a waste of time and money. Key guidelines include:⏎- Take warmed-up machine samples while equipment is running. If that’s not possible, sample no later than 30 minutes after shutdown⏎-
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form of life, they point out, this is simply an example of a normal form of earth life adapting in a remarkable way to harsh conditions. Well, if that's the case, I don't know what all the fuss is about. We
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for New Scientist and estimated that PCB levels would only rise above normal ocean concentration within 1 kilometre of the ships and are unlikely to harm marine life even in that area. "It's not an ethical thing to do," Lohmann says
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
- L4:698 excites
- L3:1003 excites
- L6:1105 weakly excites 'that' after a finding or surprise verb
- L4:227 weakly suppresses
- L0:2204 weakly excites
- L0:1216 weakly excites
- L9:661 weakly excites
- L10:33 weakly suppresses
- L6:558 weakly suppresses
- L15:181 weakly excites
- L3:2786 weakly suppresses
- L8:132 weakly suppresses
- L1:2278 weakly excites
- L3:2141 weakly excites
- L13:112 weakly suppresses
- L3:1253 weakly suppresses
- L11:73 weakly excites
- L8:369 weakly suppresses 'of' after 'learned' or 'because'
- L15:397 weakly suppresses
- L5:1061 weakly excites
- L1:945 weakly suppresses
- L12:728 weakly suppresses
- L1:471 weakly suppresses
- L11:1774 weakly excites
Feeds later layers
- L17:2695 excites
- L17:1361 excites 'that' after verbs like recommend
- L23:298 excites
- L17:2280 excites
- L17:1282 excites
- L19:1100 excites
- L21:191 suppresses
- L19:2919 excites
- L17:2684 excites
- L21:639 excites
- L20:982 suppresses
- L23:147 excites "that" introducing a clause or "that is"
- L19:94 suppresses
- L18:1519 excites
- L19:433 excites
- L19:316 weakly suppresses
- L19:695 weakly suppresses
- L17:2363 weakly suppresses
- L22:892 weakly excites
- L18:229 weakly suppresses
- L22:360 weakly excites
- L21:721 weakly excites
- L26:2986 weakly suppresses
- L18:598 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
- 一旦
- 一切都是
- tero
- _"
- 由于
- 我们知道
- "***
- {}".
- if
- quete
Suppresses
- gress
- ��
- iking
- zelf
- oses
- ough
- ours
- Falls
- idine
- asions