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Qwen3-0.6B

"way" after "on his/the"

A neuron in layer 2 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 "way" in phrases like "on his way" or "on the way home". Turning it up gave text that did not clearly change theme.

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

    railroad in Omaha, was dispatched to the tiny town of Lexington, Nebraska to fix a broken telegraph wire. On his way, his train was attacked by 25 members of the Cheyenne tribe

  2. #2 peak

    Her first social evening is also a disappointment, for she finds the conversation of both men and women personal and trivial. She tries to introduce something different. On the way home, however, she is lectured by her husband on the danger of shocking

  3. #3 peak

    uman and an army of monkeys, headed towards Lanka (Ravana’s Kingdom) in order to enter a war with Ravana and rescue Sita. On his way to Lanka, Rama organized Chandi Pooja to seek the blessings of

  4. #4 peak

    88, but it wasn’t confirmed until Charles J. Moore, a California-based sea researcher, stumbled upon the area in 1997 on his way home from a sailing race. Moore, who once described the area as plastic soup

  5. #5 peak

    Cup 2023. ... Olympic Basketball Tournament.⏎(Basketball term) the successful deflection of a shot by touching part of the ball on its way to the basket, thereby preventing a field goal⏎Một loại quần short

  6. #6 peak

    chicken salad in a lunch box or a sandwich.⏎- Have a healthy snack to cover you between lunch and dinner; this avoids unnecessary stops for quick snacks on the way home, e.g. crisps or chocolate bars.⏎Bus and Train<|endoftext|>In

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 am not, but I am not, and I am not. But I am not. But I am not. But I am not. But I am not. But I am not. But I am not. But I am not

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

    options include:⏎- Marrow stimulation to help encourage the growth of new cartilage⏎- Debridement to remove loose edges⏎- Autologous chondrocyte implantation to create new cartilage and replace what is damaged⏎-

  2. #2 peak

    research scientist at the University of Wisconsin’s Alzheimer’s Institute, in Madison, who was not involved in the research.⏎Researchers at Daping Hospital, in Chongqing, followed 638 men and women over the age of 55

  3. #3 peak

    Americas (along with other large mammals like the mammoth and giant sloth) about 10,000 years ago. It was the Spanish Conquistators that

  4. #4 peak

    situate on one side of the Bahama (old) Channel, which passes between Havanna (Cuba) and Florida. But nearer the […]⏎Conquistador Was Deep in U

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. L0:178 suppresses
  2. L0:1301 suppresses
  3. L0:1224 suppresses
  4. L1:331 weakly suppresses
  5. L1:1464 weakly excites
  6. L1:1110 weakly excites
  7. L1:178 weakly suppresses
  8. L1:1304 weakly suppresses
  9. L1:1583 weakly excites
  10. L0:226 weakly excites
  11. L1:1099 weakly excites
  12. L0:1780 weakly suppresses
  13. L0:419 weakly suppresses
  14. L1:2801 weakly excites
  15. L1:951 weakly excites
  16. L1:87 weakly suppresses
  17. L1:2408 weakly excites
  18. L1:1315 weakly suppresses
  19. L1:1824 weakly suppresses
  20. L1:2210 weakly excites
  21. L0:1827 weakly excites
  22. L0:2622 weakly suppresses
  23. L1:2858 weakly suppresses 'as' in Incas, 'te' in intelligence
  24. L1:2342 weakly excites

Feeds later layers

  1. L8:866 weakly excites
  2. L5:1839 weakly suppresses
  3. L7:2277 weakly excites
  4. L3:2575 weakly suppresses
  5. L5:3037 weakly excites
  6. L21:655 weakly suppresses
  7. L16:2382 weakly excites
  8. L11:2046 weakly excites
  9. L8:932 weakly suppresses
  10. L4:1330 weakly excites
  11. L7:2321 weakly excites
  12. L21:2027 weakly excites
  13. L21:1994 weakly excites
  14. L20:1017 weakly suppresses
  15. L26:2866 weakly excites
  16. L6:1761 weakly excites
  17. L14:655 weakly suppresses
  18. L20:2346 weakly excites
  19. L9:2710 weakly excites
  20. L13:1866 weakly excites
  21. L7:704 weakly suppresses
  22. L16:55 weakly excites
  23. L16:1304 weakly excites
  24. L22:2937 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 -1.44 and -1.321 values between -0.95 and -0.831 values between -0.71 and -0.596 values between -0.59 and -0.4736 values between -0.47 and -0.34120 values between -0.34 and -0.22477 values between -0.22 and -0.102111 values between -0.10 and 0.02990 values between 0.02 and 0.15133 values between 0.15 and 0.2719 values between 0.27 and 0.395 values between 0.39 and 0.512 values between 0.51 and 0.632 values between 0.76 and 0.881 values between 0.88 and 1.001 values between 1.49 and 1.611 values between 2.10 and 2.221 values between 3.32 and 3.44offnegativepositiveoften

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. ACKET
  2. оде
  3. ouble
  4. rite
  5. 舅舅
  6. 녁
  7. 对孩子
  8. rors
  9. ','=','
  10. [opt

Suppresses

  1. Marino
  2. 哥
  3. 下一
  4. topics
  5. units
  6. 声
  7. advance
  8. subur
  9. ph
  10. models