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Qwen3-0.6B

the word new before a noun

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

It reacts to the word "new" when it comes before a noun that names a time or event, such as "the new school year", "a new era" or "a new surge". The strongest hits are all that one word. Turning it up pushed the model toward unrelated sums and questions, so the steering output does not show the word itself.

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

    school safely⏎Summer vacation is drawing to a close, and soon the bells will be ringing to bring in the new school year.⏎Keeping children safe is the Olympia School District’s top priority, especially

  2. #2 peak

    in a fun, productive manner that keeps kids engaged! Here are five ways to prevent summer learning loss and help your student retain information to help them succeed when the new school year begins.⏎1. Create a routine to stay on track.⏎Most students

  3. #3 peak

    both types of declaw.4 This study as well as a similar study did find that cats decl<|endoftext|>With the human population expected to grow by billions over the new few decades, the United Nations is predicting that by 2050 our

  4. #4 peak

    But is it true? How can peer pressure be affected or aggravated through social media?⏎The endless struggle to keep young teens away from bad influences have moved into a new battlefield– the Internet. The latest studies show that people, especially teenagers, who

  5. #5 peak

    weight in the end. Yoyo dieting may also put other strains on different parts of your body, as your system must constantly recalibrate to deal with a new weight.⏎Some minor change in weight is consistently minor in the effects on your body

  6. #6 peak

    anding Role for Genetics Counselors⏎The completion of the human genome sequencing launches a new era in genetic medicine. With the decoding of the letters that make up the recipe

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: "I was a child first, then I got to the first place of the first place of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first

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

    diverse set of controls, as well as in a discontinuity analysis on observations near the borders between anglophone and francophone countries.⏎- Colonial rule⏎ASJC Scopus subject areas⏎- Economics and Econometrics⏎- Organizational Behavior and

  2. #2 peak

    |Number of pages||12|⏎|Journal||Classical and Quantum Gravity|⏎|State||Published - Jul 7 2003|⏎ASJC Scopus subject areas⏎- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)<|endoftext|>Most computer

  3. #3 peak

    the city of Jerusalem by which the St Lazarus hospital was established is still known today as the St Lazarus Gate.<|endoftext|>There's actually a major health crisis today in terms of the shortage of organs. The fact is that we're living longer

  4. #4 peak

    European scientists, led by researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE)’s Faculty of Medicine in the context of the GEUVADIS project, today present a map that points to the genetic causes of differences between people. The study

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. L4:2828 excites
  2. L16:2071 excites
  3. L4:2459 weakly excites
  4. L4:479 weakly suppresses
  5. L15:699 weakly excites
  6. L4:2480 weakly suppresses
  7. L16:282 weakly excites
  8. L2:2903 weakly suppresses
  9. L12:2476 weakly excites
  10. L13:2325 weakly suppresses
  11. L12:480 weakly excites
  12. L3:1615 weakly suppresses
  13. L15:190 weakly excites
  14. L6:2965 weakly excites
  15. L2:2749 weakly excites
  16. L12:3065 weakly excites
  17. L10:431 weakly excites
  18. L11:518 weakly suppresses
  19. L16:2301 weakly suppresses
  20. L16:227 weakly suppresses
  21. L5:1018 weakly suppresses
  22. L11:2562 weakly excites
  23. L16:2395 weakly suppresses
  24. L8:2881 weakly excites the word 'new'

Feeds later layers

  1. L19:2826 excites
  2. L19:106 weakly excites
  3. L27:3044 weakly suppresses
  4. L18:1944 weakly excites
  5. L19:2963 weakly excites
  6. L21:1790 weakly excites
  7. L22:2368 weakly excites
  8. L24:23 weakly excites
  9. L20:1608 weakly excites
  10. L20:2375 weakly suppresses
  11. L22:1216 weakly excites
  12. L19:2587 weakly suppresses
  13. L21:2818 weakly suppresses
  14. L18:2189 weakly excites
  15. L20:558 weakly suppresses
  16. L21:716 weakly excites
  17. L19:457 weakly suppresses
  18. L21:808 weakly excites
  19. L27:606 weakly excites
  20. L19:3024 weakly suppresses
  21. L18:3002 weakly suppresses
  22. L18:2333 weakly excites
  23. L18:2367 weakly excites
  24. L23:401 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.

2 values between -2.70 and -1.921 values between -1.92 and -1.15637 values between -1.15 and -0.383226 values between -0.38 and 0.4020 values between 0.40 and 1.175 values between 1.17 and 1.941 values between 1.94 and 2.711 values between 2.71 and 3.482 values between 3.48 and 4.261 values between 4.26 and 5.031 values between 5.03 and 5.803 values between 5.80 and 6.573 values between 7.35 and 8.121 values between 8.12 and 8.892 values between 9.66 and 10.441 values between 11.21 and 11.981 values between 27.43 and 28.20offnegativepositiveoften

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. _SPE
  2. york
  3. 市长
  4. ty
  5. Scient
  6. _ARR
  7. uesta
  8. year
  9. state
  10. (State

Suppresses

  1. tract
  2. 仍是
  3. ifold
  4. 击杀
  5. pill
  6. inite
  7. boxing
  8. still
  9. ibles
  10. abinet