Neuron Explorer

Qwen3-0.6B

opening parenthesis after a noun phrase

A neuron in layer 18 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 fires on an opening bracket that starts an aside, like a clarifying note or a number in brackets after a noun. Turning it up produced text that drifted into odd, repetitive wording rather than anything tied to brackets.

Written by Claude from this neuron's activations and steering outputs. Confidence: low. 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

    is feasible to ask whether crocodilian species may also harbor the influenza A virus. Here we analyzed 37 captive crocodilians from two locations in Florida (plus 5 wild bird fecal samples from their habitat) to detect the presence

  2. #2 peak

    studies investigated when children became able to detect that the words of a story could support multiple interpretations. Each subject saw two eight-sentence stories of each of four types (no-cause, unbiased, biased-proximal, and biased-distal),

  3. #3 peak

    (24 in English; 24 in French in the French part) include an audio description for the blind and visually impaired; and 49 films (27 in English; 22

  4. #4 peak

    biology), and figuring out how to save everything (conservation biology). Further, when elements cannot be saved, field biologists help bring back species and their ecosystems (restoration biology).⏎Chicago Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full

  5. #5 peak

    the different types of relationships on the board.⏎Activity One: My Own Square Meter (30 minutes)⏎1. Have students go outside and pick a small area (about a square meter each) to explore. It is preferable that this

  6. #6 peak

    find targets for better treatments. It’s latest in a steady stream of good news from autism researchers recently, who have reported on innovative ways to diagnose the disorder earlier (as we reported here, here and here) and on new genes that contribute to

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: 1)111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111

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

    individual battery voltages are added together. When charging your battery, it is necessary to account for the total voltage of the string.⏎For example, if you have (2) 100 amp hour, 6 volt batteries connected in series

  2. #2 peak

    me about 2nd conditionals, but I'm a safe bet for what reads well in (American) English.⏎Me too. I think the 'brass' refers to

  3. #3 peak

    there are also (possible) cases of justified aversions/downplays: ie heart surgeon, firefighter,

  4. #4 peak

    perform ... such as shuffling a deck of cards. Remember this next time you play!⏎[I apologise that (during the video), when writing the huge numeral above, I inadvertently wrote part of

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. L3:57 excites
  2. L17:304 excites opening parenthesis after a claim
  3. L6:144 excites
  4. L16:1967 excites
  5. L16:1513 excites opening parenthesis before a numbered list
  6. L11:2191 excites unclear: brackets and parentheses in text
  7. L9:339 excites
  8. L15:82 suppresses
  9. L0:1252 suppresses
  10. L10:66 suppresses opening parenthesis after a citation or term
  11. L10:445 excites
  12. L15:96 weakly suppresses
  13. L0:2119 weakly suppresses
  14. L16:1168 weakly suppresses 'to' after verbs of change
  15. L10:2562 weakly excites
  16. L15:129 weakly suppresses
  17. L15:78 weakly excites
  18. L15:114 weakly excites
  19. L8:354 weakly excites opening parenthesis before a citation year
  20. L4:64 weakly excites
  21. L6:2143 weakly excites
  22. L3:544 weakly excites opening parenthesis in lists and asides
  23. L14:392 weakly excites
  24. L15:1794 weakly excites

Feeds later layers

  1. L19:2251 suppresses opening parenthesis after a name
  2. L21:1844 suppresses
  3. L20:1451 suppresses
  4. L22:1637 suppresses
  5. L20:2173 suppresses
  6. L19:453 suppresses
  7. L20:1841 suppresses opening parenthesis before a citation
  8. L23:224 excites
  9. L21:1239 suppresses
  10. L20:722 weakly suppresses
  11. L27:744 weakly excites
  12. L22:3047 weakly suppresses
  13. L20:147 weakly suppresses
  14. L19:2046 weakly suppresses
  15. L24:932 weakly excites
  16. L26:2095 weakly suppresses
  17. L22:1116 weakly excites
  18. L24:1024 weakly excites
  19. L20:1737 weakly suppresses
  20. L23:864 weakly excites
  21. L24:581 weakly excites
  22. L25:1317 weakly suppresses
  23. L20:2732 weakly suppresses
  24. L20:915 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 -21.73 and -21.152 values between -7.19 and -6.611 values between -6.03 and -5.451 values between -5.45 and -4.871 values between -4.87 and -4.281 values between -4.28 and -3.701 values between -2.54 and -1.964 values between -1.96 and -1.373 values between -1.37 and -0.794 values between -0.79 and -0.212974 values between -0.21 and 0.37848 values between 0.37 and 0.9567 values between 0.95 and 1.53offnegativepositiveoften

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. ernal
  2. amel
  3. aneous
  4. unan
  5. 벽
  6. exion
  7. 핑
  8. aming
  9. รง
  10. idar

Suppresses

  1. ╯
  2. yyval
  3. 으
  4. .*)
  5. 丰富
  6. чив
  7. Theft
  8. Pick
  9. nuts
  10. stolen