"a" before a descriptive noun phrase
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. 17 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 fires on the word "a" in phrases like "develop a critical", "living in a rural" or "in a few days", where a description usually comes next. 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 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: “If you, as in example, (for example, for example, for example, for example, for example, for example, for example, for example, for example, for example, for example, for example, for example,
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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or longer. Late-onset asthma produces heavy inflammation of bronchial tubes and is the dominant cause of chronic asthma.⏎Differences in treatment⏎Discovering these two types of asthma reactions has caused doctors to modify their treatment plans. Drug companies as
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in Fuhlsbüttel had already been in place for over half a century, when the Nazis⏎came to power in Germany⏎and began using it
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, all of it connected to 128 gigabytes of shared memory. But the M1 Ultra is in fact a Frankenstein’s monster, consisting of two identical M1 Max chips bolted together using a silicon interface that serves as a
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th cent. B.C., when it was first used, calligraphy has always been considered equal, or even superior, to painting. Chinese calligraphy began with a simplified seal script, known as "chancery script," in which the width
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
- L4:137 excites
- L10:365 suppresses
- L16:341 excites
- L9:59 suppresses "a" meaning per (a day, a year)
- L3:2559 suppresses
- L8:7 excites
- L0:3035 suppresses
- L8:4 weakly excites
- L3:50 weakly excites
- L5:125 weakly excites "of" after all three, both, ten
- L16:880 weakly suppresses
- L6:7 weakly suppresses
- L5:169 weakly excites
- L5:110 weakly suppresses
- L11:2 weakly suppresses unclear: blank before a year or number
- L5:1127 weakly suppresses
- L15:114 weakly excites
- L6:12 weakly excites
- L11:2859 weakly suppresses
- L8:10 weakly excites
- L1:331 weakly suppresses
- L16:507 weakly suppresses
- L8:253 weakly excites
- L11:282 weakly excites
Feeds later layers
- L21:2472 suppresses
- L23:705 suppresses
- L18:973 excites
- L19:1375 suppresses
- L20:3051 suppresses
- L23:883 weakly suppresses
- L20:1736 weakly excites
- L26:2677 weakly suppresses
- L21:1318 weakly suppresses
- L26:2420 weakly suppresses
- L18:640 weakly excites
- L23:2176 weakly excites
- L25:1316 weakly suppresses
- L26:2601 weakly excites
- L19:1331 weakly suppresses
- L22:2883 weakly suppresses
- L27:2627 weakly excites
- L21:2486 weakly suppresses
- L22:2531 weakly suppresses
- L26:371 weakly suppresses
- L25:3034 weakly suppresses
- L18:285 weakly excites
- L23:712 weakly suppresses
- L24:815 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
- steller
- ees
- alist
- anan
- anne
- esk
- -resistant
- edith
- 有一种
- onica
Suppresses
- sembles
- ido
- 寒假
- 捧
- änd
- world
- Cheer
- {};⏎
- {⏎⏎
- .unpack