opening paren before an acronym
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. 20 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 reacts to the open bracket that comes right after a long organisation or program name, just before its short form, such as 'European Commission (EAPA)'. Turning it up made the model's text wander into abstract, unrelated sentences.
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 three concepts undergoing preliminary studies for the three-year, €7 million ($9 million) European hypersonic research project, Long Term Advanced Propulsion Concepts and Technologies (LAPCAT).⏎With €4 million from the European Commission and the rest from
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point the way towards evidence-based solutions that are effective, scalable, and invite implementation.”⏎Alongside Congress and the CFPB, the Native American Financial Services Association (NAFSA) is dedicated to providing financial literacy to everyone. Through their Financial
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as the National Qualification for Headship (NPQH) in the United Kingdom and the (Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) standards in the United States. Distributed patterns of leadership have developed
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Street, a home where teen boys learn independent living skills; a community-based Diagnostic Evaluation service that helps people of all ages; SouthEast Treatment and Reentry Team (START), a program that works with teen girls in residential placement through their transition to
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In early December, the East African Paediatric Association (EAPA) and Kenya Paediatric Assocation (KPA) in collaboration
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sediment core incubations.⏎26 Related JoVE Articles!⏎Assessment of Social Cognition in Non-human Primates Using a Network of Computerized Automated Learning Device (ALDM) Test Systems⏎Institutions: Aix-Marseille University.⏎F
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: the fact that a frun in a frun is a frun in a frun. This is the frun in the frun. This is a frun in a frun. And this is a frun in a fr
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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Unlimited right to asylum was conceived in West Germany immediately after the Second World War. By adopting this permissive approach to the right to asylum, the Parliamentary Council (Parlamentarischer Rat) wanted to make a deliberate break with the National Socialist
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several financial institutions in conjunction with the Bank of Canada.⏎association canadienne des paiements⏎Related Terms and Acronyms⏎- Clearing and Settlement (C&S) — Acronym,⏎- The process whereby banks collect or pay out for
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Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO), which aims to improve European defense capabilities and cooperation with an emphasis on joint defense-related research projects; The European Defence Fund (EDF), a mechanism for funding PESCO projects and incentivizing greater cohesion and efficiency
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potentially dangerous microorganisms. Through a HEPA filter, the continuous airflow is released into the atmosphere. Biological Safety Cabinets, sometimes referred to as Biosafety Cabinets (BSC) or Microbiological Safety Cabinets, are vented laboratory workspaces for
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
- L19:1829 strongly suppresses opening bracket before an acronym
- L17:2755 suppresses
- L17:2502 suppresses opening parenthesis before an abbreviation
- L17:1307 excites parenthesis introducing an acronym
- L14:2419 excites
- L19:1778 excites
- L19:1011 excites
- L17:2698 suppresses
- L17:2032 suppresses
- L19:2045 excites abbreviation pieces in organisation names
- L7:765 suppresses
- L18:2674 suppresses
- L19:2278 excites
- L19:1520 excites
- L9:2946 suppresses
- L19:2801 suppresses
- L11:651 suppresses
- L16:722 weakly suppresses
- L13:3032 weakly excites
- L18:1031 weakly excites
- L12:1340 weakly excites
- L8:2045 weakly suppresses
- L17:1404 weakly suppresses
- L12:2126 weakly suppresses
Feeds later layers
- L21:496 strongly excites
- L21:1291 suppresses
- L25:652 suppresses
- L23:957 suppresses
- L24:555 excites
- L25:2204 suppresses
- L23:672 suppresses
- L25:735 excites
- L24:142 suppresses
- L25:1105 suppresses
- L25:609 suppresses
- L26:443 suppresses
- L23:2426 suppresses
- L26:914 suppresses
- L24:1278 excites
- L27:129 suppresses
- L23:404 excites
- L21:1355 weakly excites
- L27:266 weakly excites
- L23:225 weakly suppresses
- L26:23 weakly excites
- L26:386 weakly suppresses
- L21:857 weakly excites
- L25:486 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
- edException
- AAC
- TEE
- theless
- LGPL
- MCC
- =DB
- BDS
- DWC
- -DD
Suppresses
- ÜN
- mod
- too
- хо
- ove
- 爷
- avail
- com
- 大的
- tran