Neuron Explorer

Qwen3-0.6B

parenthesis opening a side note

A neuron in layer 17 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 responds to an opening bracket that begins an aside, like a citation, a fact check or a note, placed after a complete sentence. It overlaps with a neighbouring neuron that does the same job. Turning it up gave text that did not show a 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 activation was highest. Amber marks positive activation; the outlined token is the peak. Hover a token for its strength.

  1. #1 peak

    in just about any way you can think of, from drinking it to inhaling it to literally rubbing it on your face and letting it diffuse through your skin. (Though, in that last case, it bears mentioning that scientific articles discussing the exact

  2. #2 peak

    "—enclosed cricket breeding contraptions fed by recycled organic wastes like lawn clippings and kitchen scraps.⏎His apartment contains one of a few working prototypes. (His wife almost kicked him out when a few escaped, motivating him further to perfect

  3. #3 peak

    2001 and 2008, Meehan and colleagues studied the spider in its tropical habitat in southeastern Mexico and northwestern Costa Rica. (Get spider facts.)⏎They observed that the spiders ate nutrient-rich buds that grow on

  4. #4 peak

    the babies fledge, the males take care of the young birds alone. Researchers believe females are off with a new male partner to raise a second brood. (Redpolls and American Goldfinch also do this.)⏎- White-winged

  5. #5 peak

    , Dr. Patterson has maintained a database now listing 370 genetic disorders in dogs, with 5 to 10 new ones added each year. (By comparison, there are some 5

  6. #6 peak

    phrase, "Israelite People." Acting out of panic, Pharaoh wanted to do away with the Hebrews, when he declared they were becoming too numerous. (Exodus 1:9)⏎Even so, the distinction placed on our understanding

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: which is the one the one the one the one the one the one the one the one the one the one the one the one, the one the one the one the one the one the one the one the one the one the one the

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

    related to fluid or blood administration; however, an acute coagulopathy can also occur in severely injured patients independent of, or in addition to, these factors [2,3]. Several terms are used in the literature to refer to this condition

  2. #2 peak

    agulopathy have a threefold to fourfold greater mortality, and are up to eight times more likely to die within the first 24 hours following injury [2-4,7,8].⏎Injury to brain tissue may predispose

  3. #3 peak

    alcohol consumption, both in terms of morbidity and mortality, is considerable (Rehm et al., 2009; WHO Europe, 2

  4. #4 peak

    08) is associated with marked ecological changes, including alterations to climatic regimes, phenology, resource availability and habitat quality (Zhou et al. 2004; Grimm et al.

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. L10:66 suppresses opening parenthesis after a citation or term
  2. L16:264 suppresses opening parenthesis in citations and asides
  3. L16:710 suppresses
  4. L15:1149 suppresses
  5. L8:2 excites
  6. L14:90 weakly suppresses
  7. L15:1570 weakly excites
  8. L7:874 weakly suppresses
  9. L4:2309 weakly excites
  10. L9:1421 weakly suppresses
  11. L9:339 weakly excites
  12. L14:778 weakly excites
  13. L1:524 weakly suppresses
  14. L11:53 weakly excites
  15. L14:3043 weakly excites
  16. L11:331 weakly excites
  17. L10:65 weakly excites
  18. L12:1784 weakly excites
  19. L8:354 weakly excites opening parenthesis before a citation year
  20. L0:715 weakly suppresses
  21. L11:50 weakly excites
  22. L4:64 weakly excites
  23. L4:1999 weakly suppresses
  24. L10:1685 weakly excites

Feeds later layers

  1. L19:389 suppresses
  2. L20:491 excites
  3. L18:802 excites line break after list items or paragraphs
  4. L23:171 excites
  5. L25:40 suppresses
  6. L27:239 suppresses
  7. L23:444 weakly excites
  8. L21:147 weakly excites
  9. L19:955 weakly suppresses
  10. L18:822 weakly suppresses
  11. L25:88 weakly excites
  12. L19:2097 weakly suppresses sentence-end punctuation in speech
  13. L19:2411 weakly excites
  14. L27:1801 weakly excites
  15. L24:178 weakly excites
  16. L19:2429 weakly suppresses
  17. L20:1026 weakly suppresses
  18. L24:563 weakly excites
  19. L18:970 weakly excites
  20. L19:938 weakly excites
  21. L25:2493 weakly excites
  22. L21:233 weakly excites
  23. L20:453 weakly suppresses
  24. L25:297 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 -13.40 and -12.881 values between -11.33 and -10.812 values between -10.81 and -10.291 values between -9.77 and -9.251 values between -8.74 and -8.222 values between -8.22 and -7.701 values between -7.18 and -6.662 values between -6.66 and -6.151 values between -6.15 and -5.632 values between -5.63 and -5.112 values between -5.11 and -4.591 values between -4.59 and -4.071 values between -4.07 and -3.563 values between -3.56 and -3.043 values between -3.04 and -2.524 values between -2.52 and -2.007 values between -2.00 and -1.485 values between -1.48 and -0.9748 values between -0.97 and -0.451820 values between -0.45 and 0.071901 values between 0.07 and 0.5980 values between 0.59 and 1.115 values between 1.11 and 1.633 values between 1.63 and 2.144 values between 2.14 and 2.662 values between 2.66 and 3.182 values between 3.18 and 3.701 values between 3.70 and 4.221 values between 6.29 and 6.811 values between 6.81 and 7.32offnegativepositiveoften

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. -FIRST
  2. order
  3. -order
  4. PERTIES
  5. [cur
  6. -vous
  7. -times
  8. -UA
  9. )
  10. ORDER

Suppresses

  1. .", ⏎
  2. .",⏎
  3. :",⏎
  4. ",⏎⏎
  5. aph
  6. ."),⏎
  7. !.⏎⏎
  8. auc
  9. .";⏎
  10. ."; ⏎