"to" introducing a purpose
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 "to" when it introduces why something is done, like "a technique to improve" or "used to expand". It goes quiet on "to" in other roles, such as "the first person to learn". Turning it up made the model's continuations wander without any clear theme.
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: the process of a change of a process is a process of change in the whole of the process. The process of change is changing. The process of change is changing. The process of change is changing. The process of change is changing.
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
- L15:1176 excites
- L12:1799 suppresses
- L12:237 excites
- L14:473 suppresses
- L8:723 suppresses
- L12:2212 suppresses 'to' or 'for' opening a purpose phrase
- L5:2132 excites
- L12:1607 excites
- L15:2262 suppresses
- L13:909 excites 'to' before a verb after a noun
- L15:1234 weakly suppresses
- L15:1320 weakly excites
- L14:2340 weakly suppresses
- L14:1158 weakly excites 'to' starting a purpose clause
- L8:94 weakly excites
- L14:867 weakly suppresses
- L14:77 weakly excites
- L15:901 weakly suppresses
- L15:1593 weakly excites
- L15:1837 weakly excites
- L13:1447 weakly suppresses
- L15:2611 weakly excites
- L15:1836 weakly excites
- L12:1032 weakly excites
Feeds later layers
- L17:591 weakly excites
- L26:2421 weakly excites
- L18:2437 weakly suppresses
- L25:1156 weakly suppresses
- L20:735 weakly excites
- L17:2351 weakly excites
- L23:1587 weakly suppresses
- L23:1370 weakly suppresses
- L17:1969 weakly excites
- L22:882 weakly excites
- L18:2326 weakly suppresses
- L19:1220 weakly suppresses
- L20:14 weakly excites
- L20:1613 weakly suppresses
- L17:2383 weakly excites
- L22:2962 weakly suppresses
- L18:2551 weakly excites
- L17:3026 weakly suppresses space right before a number
- L23:297 weakly suppresses
- L19:1780 weakly suppresses
- L22:1241 weakly suppresses
- L17:2371 weakly suppresses
- L22:610 weakly suppresses
- L21:2742 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
- 因为它
- عي
- ք
- mol
- olid
- .Closed
- duy
- Languages
- kilometers
- icates
Suppresses
- tdown
- leur
- dwelling
- runnable
- vant
- presently
- usr
- ANDING
- userdata
- uite