'the' or 'outside' after 'cut off from'
A neuronOne of thousands of tiny dials inside each layer. It reads the text so far and produces a number, its activation, that nudges what the model writes next. in layerOne step in the stack the text passes through. Qwen3-0.6B has 28 layers, each with 3,072 neurons. 19 of Qwen3-0.6B. Its strongest snippets are very consistent: they mostly peak on the same token. It is featuredA neuron picked for the full treatment: steering outputs and a written explanation. About 3,000 of the 86,000 neurons are 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 activationThe number a neuron produces for a token. Large positive means it fired hard; negative means it pushed the other way. was highest. Amber marks positive activation; the outlined tokenA piece of text the model reads at once: often a word, sometimes part of a word or a punctuation mark. is the peak. Hover a token for its strength.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
SteeringAdding a push along a neuron while the model writes, to see how its output changes. Turning it up or down.
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.
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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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 mapWhich neuronsOne of thousands of tiny dials inside each layer. It reads the text so far and produces a number, its activation, that nudges what the model writes next. in earlier layersOne step in the stack the text passes through. Qwen3-0.6B has 28 layers, each with 3,072 neurons. feed this one, and which later ones it feeds. Amber links excite, blue links suppress; longer bars are stronger.
Fed by earlier layers
- L17:2656 weakly excites
- L12:2196 weakly excites
- L6:1473 weakly excites
- L11:2905 weakly excites
- L8:1307 weakly excites words for stretching out or extending
- L8:2713 weakly suppresses
- L15:2026 weakly excites
- L15:1167 weakly suppresses
- L3:14 weakly suppresses
- L16:2185 weakly suppresses
- L1:463 weakly excites
- L9:2757 weakly excites
- L16:2108 weakly excites
- L17:2849 weakly excites
- L1:767 weakly excites
- L14:1368 weakly suppresses
- L16:2562 weakly excites
- L3:660 weakly excites
- L17:1607 weakly excites
- L6:2775 weakly suppresses
- L9:2780 weakly excites
- L2:2626 weakly suppresses
- L12:883 weakly suppresses
- L11:2919 weakly suppresses
Feeds later layers
- L23:2262 excites
- L20:2627 excites
- L27:1978 excites
- L21:1055 excites
- L27:1880 excites
- L20:1029 excites
- L22:2772 weakly excites
- L24:1307 weakly excites
- L21:1680 weakly excites
- L22:2989 weakly suppresses
- L22:638 weakly excites
- L20:2094 weakly excites
- L27:1027 weakly suppresses
- L24:2318 weakly suppresses
- L24:2340 weakly excites
- L25:2228 weakly suppresses
- L25:1921 weakly excites
- L20:1722 weakly excites
- L26:2452 weakly suppresses
- L21:1806 weakly excites
- L24:1829 weakly suppresses
- L23:2525 weakly suppresses
- L21:2155 weakly excites
- L22:2864 weakly excites
Activation histogramA chart of how often a neuron takes each activation value.
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.
Logit lensReading which output tokens a neuron pushes toward or away from, straight off its output weights, before the later layers have their say.
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 layersOne step in the stack the text passes through. Qwen3-0.6B has 28 layers, each with 3,072 neurons. instead.
Promotes
- 外面
- outside
- 外部
- 外界
- outside
- 外
- external
- world
- external
- Outside
Suppresses
- 本书
- 本書
- omas
- relocate
- urate
- SimpleName
- емся
- Moved
- ipline
- 棹