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Qwen3-0.6B

comma before 'however'

A neuron in layer 19 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 the comma right before 'however' in sentences like 'It does, however, tolerate...'. Turning it up made the model keep writing the word 'however' again and again.

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

    brown. The dead leaves tend to remain on the tree through the winter. It is not drought-tolerant and does not tolerate alkaline soils. It does, however, tolerate being planted in a lawn.⏎Japanese maple (Acer palmatum

  2. #2 peak

    to agricultural pesticides and herbicides are related to PD. It is important to remember, however, that these factors do not guarantee the development of PD<|endoftext|>We live in

  3. #3 peak

    The Ho-Chunk were often pleased by noticing similar social and religious priorities in both traditions, as well as fascinated and even amused by the differences. This did not, however, translate into acceptance or assimilation.⏎Today’s Artifact Ambassador is an

  4. #4 peak

    that, among other things, Western countries uphold conceptions of nationalism that center around individual rights and intermediate institutions which preserved freedom and community.⏎That story falters, however, when we treat the horrors of Western history as if they were based in

  5. #5 peak

    , and ensuring they save for retirement.⏎To be sure, many conservatives would like to lay all the blame for government's expansion at Obama's feet. The truth, however, is that this bloating has taken place over several decades. In

  6. #6 peak

    that the activity pattern of the Purkinje cells in the cerebellum is crucial for the coordination of movements," Herlitze explained. "It is unclear, however, what contribution is made by the individual receptors." In conventional studies, researchers

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 have a 2011 1922 2023 2023 220223 2023...2223...2023...22

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

    was from a rock more then 8 times the diameter of 165347 Philplait* and 500 times the mass.⏎To give you an idea of the asteroid's size, it has more than 2

  2. #2 peak

    of the fracture and it becomes much more straightforward for health care professionals to follow an appropriate standard of care in order to best treat the injury. To provide you with more information so that you may better understand whiplash injuries and

  3. #3 peak

    reach for optimal production workflows. This is why to ensure the safety of the workplace, these robots are guarded by cages to avoid any injuries with any surrounding workers.⏎To come back to cobots,

  4. #4 peak

    on the increase. On average you might expect to see aurora in the far north of Scotland every few months, but less often as you travel further south.⏎To view the Northern Lights you are best finding a dark place away from street lights.

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. L18:2182 strongly excites
  2. L15:393 excites
  3. L17:1711 excites
  4. L13:1180 suppresses
  5. L16:376 excites 'or' joining alternatives
  6. L14:1799 suppresses
  7. L16:16 suppresses
  8. L18:329 weakly suppresses
  9. L17:1668 weakly excites
  10. L3:2936 weakly excites
  11. L9:92 weakly excites "and" or "or" joining two items
  12. L5:1918 weakly excites
  13. L2:166 weakly excites
  14. L15:608 weakly excites
  15. L14:1349 weakly suppresses
  16. L17:572 weakly suppresses
  17. L15:1905 weakly excites
  18. L17:723 weakly suppresses
  19. L12:76 weakly suppresses
  20. L15:2168 weakly suppresses
  21. L15:322 weakly excites
  22. L14:994 weakly suppresses
  23. L18:769 weakly excites
  24. L14:1761 weakly excites

Feeds later layers

  1. L27:1084 strongly excites
  2. L25:1484 strongly excites
  3. L22:997 strongly excites
  4. L23:317 strongly excites
  5. L20:2730 excites
  6. L25:476 excites comma before 'but' in contrasts
  7. L21:1484 excites comma after a sentence subject
  8. L21:478 excites
  9. L20:1922 excites
  10. L27:1676 weakly excites
  11. L25:213 weakly suppresses
  12. L20:1358 weakly excites
  13. L26:1232 weakly excites
  14. L27:1088 weakly excites
  15. L27:1964 weakly excites
  16. L24:69 weakly excites
  17. L20:1744 weakly excites comma after a sentence's subject
  18. L20:3019 weakly excites
  19. L22:1755 weakly excites
  20. L25:1607 weakly suppresses
  21. L26:155 weakly suppresses
  22. L26:235 weakly excites
  23. L25:1425 weakly excites
  24. L27:520 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.

6 values between -2.51 and -2.1137 values between -2.11 and -1.72135 values between -1.72 and -1.32403 values between -1.32 and -0.92822 values between -0.92 and -0.531550 values between -0.53 and -0.13854 values between -0.13 and 0.2741 values between 0.27 and 0.668 values between 0.66 and 1.0612 values between 1.06 and 1.469 values between 1.46 and 1.857 values between 1.85 and 2.254 values between 2.25 and 2.652 values between 2.65 and 3.041 values between 3.04 and 3.443 values between 3.44 and 3.841 values between 3.84 and 4.231 values between 4.23 and 4.633 values between 5.03 and 5.421 values between 5.82 and 6.221 values between 6.61 and 7.011 values between 7.40 and 7.801 values between 8.20 and 8.591 values between 8.99 and 9.391 values between 10.18 and 10.581 values between 10.58 and 10.971 values between 10.97 and 11.371 values between 12.96 and 13.35offnegativepositiveoften

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. however
  2. however
  3. però
  4. though
  5. However
  6. porém
  7. однако
  8. jedoch
  9. However
  10. 却

Suppresses

  1. ь
  2. Filed
  3. ycles
  4. Ự
  5. ],"
  6. ))]
  7. eut
  8. clerosis
  9. ]]
  10. 一起去