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Qwen3-0.6B

'the' after 'some of' or 'most of'

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 lights up on the word 'the' when it comes right after phrases like 'some of' or 'most of', as in 'some of the most common'. When it was turned up, the model's writing drifted into unrelated rambling, so the steering results don't show a clear effect.

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: The question of the modern school in the United States: The question of the modern school in the United The question of the modern school in the United The question of the modern school in the United The question of the modern school in

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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  2. #2 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. L16:419 strongly excites
  2. L9:24 excites "the" before a named organisation or title
  3. L16:792 excites "the" inside a prepositional phrase
  4. L10:120 suppresses
  5. L6:61 suppresses
  6. L9:662 suppresses
  7. L10:1377 suppresses
  8. L4:52 excites
  9. L11:1168 excites
  10. L9:2198 excites
  11. L12:435 suppresses
  12. L3:291 excites
  13. L10:1644 excites
  14. L16:2062 excites "other" and contrast words
  15. L13:1234 suppresses
  16. L16:1949 suppresses
  17. L1:59 excites 'the' after a verb or preposition
  18. L9:1811 excites
  19. L16:1320 suppresses
  20. L2:205 excites
  21. L15:1848 suppresses
  22. L4:73 weakly suppresses
  23. L5:125 weakly excites "of" after all three, both, ten
  24. L8:636 weakly suppresses

Feeds later layers

  1. L20:1959 weakly excites
  2. L22:1126 weakly excites
  3. L20:1057 weakly excites
  4. L24:590 weakly suppresses
  5. L20:399 weakly excites
  6. L19:531 weakly suppresses
  7. L18:2244 weakly excites "of" inside titles and names
  8. L19:800 weakly excites
  9. L23:1439 weakly suppresses
  10. L20:1710 weakly excites
  11. L19:2704 weakly excites
  12. L22:2161 weakly suppresses
  13. L21:2838 weakly excites
  14. L18:950 weakly excites
  15. L21:713 weakly excites
  16. L18:2863 weakly excites
  17. L24:1848 weakly suppresses
  18. L21:520 weakly suppresses
  19. L22:255 weakly excites
  20. L18:2954 weakly suppresses
  21. L22:651 weakly excites
  22. L25:151 weakly excites
  23. L20:1712 weakly excites
  24. L26:2717 weakly suppresses word just before 'future'

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.

2 values between -16.11 and -15.481 values between -13.58 and -12.952 values between -12.31 and -11.681 values between -11.68 and -11.052 values between -11.05 and -10.412 values between -10.41 and -9.786 values between -9.78 and -9.155 values between -9.15 and -8.523 values between -8.52 and -7.884 values between -7.88 and -7.2511 values between -7.25 and -6.628 values between -6.62 and -5.9814 values between -5.98 and -5.3511 values between -5.35 and -4.7217 values between -4.72 and -4.0915 values between -4.09 and -3.4516 values between -3.45 and -2.8218 values between -2.82 and -2.1919 values between -2.19 and -1.5653 values between -1.56 and -0.92263 values between -0.92 and -0.292808 values between -0.29 and 0.34592 values between 0.34 and 0.9823 values between 0.98 and 1.614 values between 1.61 and 2.243 values between 2.24 and 2.883 values between 2.88 and 3.511 values between 5.41 and 6.041 values between 8.57 and 9.20offnegativepositiveoften

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. vement
  2. ramento
  3. textBox
  4. inality
  5. gren
  6. uş
  7. uator
  8. ependency
  9. 委组织
  10. vent

Suppresses

  1. _),
  2. ophil
  3. pea
  4. -haired
  5. 存在于
  6. 主题
  7. _ ⏎ ⏎
  8. ereço
  9. obili
  10. �