'less' in 'colorless'
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. 2 of Qwen3-0.6B. Its strongest snippets are fairly consistent: several of them 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 mostly lights up on the ending 'less' in words like 'colorless', and on a few other word pieces. Turning it up made the model's writing drift toward unrelated topics, so the link is only loose.
Written by Claude from this neuron's activations and steering outputs. Confidence: medium. 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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of incidence at large angles and a flatter response to different wavelenghts over the visible. Consequently, graded-index films are desirable in automotive applications where colorless coatings are required. A sol-gel process is presented for the formation of a
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can eventually lead to structural damage in your home if left untreated. A dehumidifier or air conditioner can help.⏎Answer: True. Radon—a colorless, tasteless and odorless gas—seeps into homes through cracks in walls
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often looks “cloudy”, tabular rectangle shape||Crystals are often half grey and half black.|⏎|Plagioclase feldspar||Colourless, sometimes looks cloudy, tabular rectangle shape||Stripy like a zebra
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ements are manufactured to meet the specifications of ASTM C150. ASTM C150 provides for ten types of portland cement: Type INormal Type IANormal, air-entraining Type IIModerate sulfate resistance Type II
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gases in the Periodic Table. It is the heaviest known gas, is radioactive, and is essentially inert. At ordinary temperatures, radon is a colorless gas, but when it is cooled below its freezing point it gains a stunning phosph
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eggs. They are colorless and about 0.1 mm in diameter. The eggs are negatively buoyant
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: 2023 - present I am a woman: I am from South Korea, and my parents are Chinese? I am a woman: I am from South Korea, and my parents are Chinese? I am a woman
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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hold their breath underwater for extended periods, making them excellent divers. The duration of a turtle’s breath-holding capabilities varies depending on several factors, including the species of turtle, water temperature, and activity level. While some species of turtles can hold
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Because of this, an arson investigator’s most important witnesses are the firefighters that first arrive on the scene. The investigator will ask firefighters for details such as the color of the smoke, damaged sprinkler systems, condition of doors and windows, and general
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is a class of diseases characterized by out-of-control cell growth. There are over 100 different types of cancer, and each is classified by the type of cell that is initially affected.⏎Cancer harms the body when damaged cells divide uncont
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under federal law.⏎Legal Liability for School-bus Accidents⏎Legal liability for injuries sustained by your child in a school-bus accident may depend on the type of parties involved.⏎
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
- L1:2801 weakly excites
- L0:2038 weakly excites
- L0:1240 weakly suppresses
- L0:1515 weakly suppresses
- L0:1631 weakly excites
- L1:653 weakly suppresses
- L1:626 weakly suppresses
- L0:174 weakly suppresses
- L1:751 weakly suppresses
- L0:535 weakly excites
- L1:1949 weakly excites
- L1:2342 weakly excites
- L1:464 weakly excites
- L1:166 weakly suppresses
- L0:1507 weakly suppresses
- L1:74 weakly excites
- L0:158 weakly excites
- L0:2194 weakly suppresses
- L0:642 weakly excites
- L1:2626 weakly excites
- L0:2579 weakly suppresses
- L0:2374 weakly excites
- L1:1435 weakly excites 'as' in 'just as'
- L1:2942 weakly excites
Feeds later layers
- L5:829 suppresses the word 'age' and 'how many'
- L7:731 suppresses
- L4:340 suppresses
- L9:153 suppresses
- L13:2618 suppresses
- L7:1186 suppresses
- L7:2414 suppresses
- L6:240 suppresses
- L13:811 weakly excites
- L12:660 weakly suppresses
- L6:447 weakly suppresses
- L19:1460 weakly suppresses
- L9:942 weakly suppresses
- L4:2826 weakly suppresses
- L3:382 weakly excites
- L4:297 weakly suppresses
- L15:1566 weakly suppresses
- L5:430 weakly suppresses
- L8:882 weakly suppresses
- L9:155 weakly excites
- L5:121 weakly suppresses
- L11:425 weakly suppresses
- L4:638 weakly suppresses
- L11:778 weakly suppresses
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
- compound
- _COMPLETED
- going
- Compound
- 的信心
- compound
- ’à
- görd
- lad
- 成功的
Suppresses
- territ
- traits
- 擤
- emap
- Territories
- tracked
- 旬
- CharacterSet
- /title
- etails