Neuron Explorer

Qwen3-0.6B

'the' or 'outside' after 'cut off from'

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 word 'the' or 'outside' right after phrases like 'cut off from', 'exposed to' or 'isolated from', where the next word is about the outside world. Turning it up made the model keep saying 'outside world' over and over.

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

    an algae scrubber. Algae bioreactors vary widely in design, falling broadly into two categories: open reactors and enclosed reactors. Open reactors are exposed to the atmosphere while enclosed reactors, also commonly called photobioreactors, are isolated to

  2. #2 peak

    rionople (now Edirne), Thrace's capital and the second city of the Byzantine Empire. This conquest effectively cut off Constantinople from the outside world, and allowed Murad to control the principal invasion route through the Balkan

  3. #3 peak

    the lovely town of Sóller and its port, nestling in the folds of the spectacularly beautiful Tramuntana mountains, were almost cut off from the rest of Mallorca because of those very mountains. The tortuous, switchback

  4. #4 peak

    0 degrees Celsius. Semi-conductors generate electricity based on the temperature differences – or fixed thermal gradient – between the heat source to which they are attached and the outside environment.⏎Dr Feng’s approach is to come at the problem from a different angle

  5. #5 peak

    iding Louisiana deltaic estuary through a Mississippi River diversion⏎Wetlands of the Mississippi River deltaic plain in southeast Louisiana have been hydrologically isolated from the Mississippi River by containment levees for nearly a century. The ensuing lack of fl

  6. #6 peak

    are unscripted (like Baptists).⏎Back Story: At his Last Supper, Jesus legendarily instructed his 12 disciples to go out into the world to minister and heal the sick on their own. It was at that point

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 128-6.5-2.5 - 4.5-3.8 - 2.3-2.2 4.2-2.2 2.2-2.

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

    a vehicle gives fire an easier way to spread, and it can also make it harder to get out of the vehicle quickly if a fire starts. Keep clutter out of your car to reduce your risk

  2. #2 peak

    once.⏎Store Ampicillin at room temperature, between 68 and 77 degrees F (20 and 25 degrees C). Store away from heat, moisture, and light. Do not store in the bathroom. Keep in

  3. #3 peak

    big toe. An ingrown nail occurs when the skin on one or both sides of a nail grows over the edges of the nail, or when the nail itself grows into the skin.

  4. #4 peak

    cement.⏎The Waste Pipes⏎The waste system is not pressurized. It is dependent upon gravity to function, so all waste pipes must slope downward, away from the fixtures and toward the sewer or septic tank, dropping at a rate 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. L17:2656 weakly excites
  2. L12:2196 weakly excites
  3. L6:1473 weakly excites
  4. L11:2905 weakly excites
  5. L8:1307 weakly excites words for stretching out or extending
  6. L8:2713 weakly suppresses
  7. L15:2026 weakly excites
  8. L15:1167 weakly suppresses
  9. L3:14 weakly suppresses
  10. L16:2185 weakly suppresses
  11. L1:463 weakly excites
  12. L9:2757 weakly excites
  13. L16:2108 weakly excites
  14. L17:2849 weakly excites
  15. L1:767 weakly excites
  16. L14:1368 weakly suppresses
  17. L16:2562 weakly excites
  18. L3:660 weakly excites
  19. L17:1607 weakly excites
  20. L6:2775 weakly suppresses
  21. L9:2780 weakly excites
  22. L2:2626 weakly suppresses
  23. L12:883 weakly suppresses
  24. L11:2919 weakly suppresses

Feeds later layers

  1. L23:2262 excites
  2. L20:2627 excites
  3. L27:1978 excites
  4. L21:1055 excites
  5. L27:1880 excites
  6. L20:1029 excites
  7. L22:2772 weakly excites
  8. L24:1307 weakly excites
  9. L21:1680 weakly excites
  10. L22:2989 weakly suppresses
  11. L22:638 weakly excites
  12. L20:2094 weakly excites
  13. L27:1027 weakly suppresses
  14. L24:2318 weakly suppresses
  15. L24:2340 weakly excites
  16. L25:2228 weakly suppresses
  17. L25:1921 weakly excites
  18. L20:1722 weakly excites
  19. L26:2452 weakly suppresses
  20. L21:1806 weakly excites
  21. L24:1829 weakly suppresses
  22. L23:2525 weakly suppresses
  23. L21:2155 weakly excites
  24. L22:2864 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.

1 values between -4.48 and -4.091 values between -3.70 and -3.313 values between -3.31 and -2.924 values between -2.92 and -2.535 values between -2.53 and -2.1412 values between -2.14 and -1.7513 values between -1.75 and -1.3625 values between -1.36 and -0.97108 values between -0.97 and -0.58757 values between -0.58 and -0.192282 values between -0.19 and 0.20493 values between 0.20 and 0.5989 values between 0.59 and 0.9836 values between 0.98 and 1.3722 values between 1.37 and 1.7616 values between 1.76 and 2.1512 values between 2.15 and 2.5411 values between 2.54 and 2.935 values between 2.93 and 3.323 values between 3.71 and 4.101 values between 4.10 and 4.492 values between 4.49 and 4.882 values between 5.27 and 5.661 values between 6.44 and 6.831 values between 8.00 and 8.391 values between 9.17 and 9.561 values between 10.34 and 10.731 values between 10.73 and 11.12offnegativepositiveoften

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. 外面
  2. outside
  3. 外部
  4. 外界
  5. outside
  6. 外
  7. external
  8. world
  9. external
  10. Outside

Suppresses

  1. 本书
  2. 本書
  3. omas
  4. relocate
  5. urate
  6. SimpleName
  7. емся
  8. Moved
  9. ipline
  10. 棹