Neuron Explorer

Qwen3-0.6B

indefinite 'a' after a verb

A neuron in layer 17 of Qwen3-0.6B. Its strongest snippets are fairly consistent: several of them peak on the same token. It is featured, so it has steering outputs.

What this neuron does

This neuron fires on the small word 'a' or 'an' right after a verb, as in 'earn a commission', 'get a custom', or 'need a space'. It is the word just before a new noun phrase begins. Turning it up did not make the writing noticeably about this, so the link to the output is weak.

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

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  2. #2 peak

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  3. #3 peak

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  4. #4 peak

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  5. #5 peak

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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: a 2.3.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.

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

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  3. #3 peak

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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. L16:1672 excites
  2. L9:1571 excites
  3. L16:1876 suppresses
  4. L5:2748 excites
  5. L14:2868 excites
  6. L10:354 excites
  7. L13:2136 suppresses
  8. L6:2635 weakly excites
  9. L10:2169 weakly suppresses
  10. L16:2486 weakly suppresses
  11. L14:2637 weakly excites
  12. L15:1386 weakly excites prepositions after passive verbs
  13. L15:2583 weakly excites
  14. L9:820 weakly excites
  15. L5:519 weakly excites
  16. L16:2270 weakly suppresses
  17. L16:2855 weakly excites
  18. L16:1777 weakly excites
  19. L15:1408 weakly excites
  20. L9:1239 weakly excites
  21. L13:885 weakly suppresses
  22. L4:1202 weakly excites
  23. L15:1507 weakly excites
  24. L15:2873 weakly excites

Feeds later layers

  1. L19:1501 suppresses
  2. L18:934 suppresses
  3. L19:776 excites
  4. L18:1278 suppresses 'a' or 'most' before a quantity
  5. L18:2301 suppresses
  6. L18:141 weakly suppresses
  7. L20:1103 weakly suppresses
  8. L19:832 weakly suppresses
  9. L20:851 weakly suppresses
  10. L18:780 weakly excites
  11. L20:2692 weakly excites
  12. L18:2534 weakly suppresses
  13. L21:247 weakly excites colon after a said or explains verb
  14. L21:1971 weakly excites
  15. L19:106 weakly suppresses
  16. L18:1235 weakly excites
  17. L21:540 weakly excites
  18. L19:778 weakly suppresses
  19. L25:339 weakly suppresses
  20. L25:3045 weakly excites
  21. L20:1554 weakly suppresses
  22. L18:487 weakly excites
  23. L27:587 weakly suppresses
  24. L19:2418 weakly suppresses

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 -15.84 and -15.351 values between -14.35 and -13.851 values between -8.88 and -8.381 values between -8.38 and -7.881 values between -7.88 and -7.391 values between -7.39 and -6.891 values between -6.89 and -6.391 values between -6.39 and -5.891 values between -5.40 and -4.901 values between -4.90 and -4.404 values between -4.40 and -3.901 values between -3.90 and -3.411 values between -3.41 and -2.916 values between -2.91 and -2.418 values between -2.41 and -1.9116 values between -1.91 and -1.4229 values between -1.42 and -0.92118 values between -0.92 and -0.422694 values between -0.42 and 0.08829 values between 0.08 and 0.58138 values between 0.58 and 1.0725 values between 1.07 and 1.5719 values between 1.57 and 2.075 values between 2.07 and 2.573 values between 2.57 and 3.061 values between 3.06 and 3.561 values between 3.56 and 4.06offnegativepositiveoften

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. avity
  2. 衔
  3. bidden
  4. ursal
  5. DownLatch
  6. orno
  7. mine
  8. DCALL
  9. race
  10. prise

Suppresses

  1. 合适的
  2. suitable
  3. 合适
  4. uitable
  5. appropriate
  6. corresponding
  7. 适当的
  8. øy
  9. 真实的
  10. orthy