"of" after "people" or "women"
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 fires on the word "of" when it follows a group noun such as "people of all ages", "people of color" or "women of childbearing age". It turns negative on "the" in phrases like "a number of the". Turning it down made the model repeat "form of the form", which does not clearly match the trigger, so the outputs are not much help.
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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asylum seekers, refugees and people of African and South Asian descent were particularly vulnerable to racism in the country.⏎In a
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theater and visual arts), foreign languages, health and physical education<|endoftext|>'Gay' is the word used to describe the physical and emotional attraction of a person to people of the same sex. It is often used to describe men or boys who are sexually
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ed for a week there among the Native Americans.⏎The area’s first permanent settler was a Scottish trader, James McQueen, who ended up marrying a woman of high status from the Coushatta tribe in 17
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include the following:⏎Race and Ethnicity⏎Individuals are protected from discrimination based on their race, ethnic background, citizenship status or national origin. This includes people of all races and ethnicities.⏎California law prohibits discrimination based on an individual’s gender
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George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police and the subsequent national protests calling attention to the long history of violence and systematic racism faced by African Americans and other people of color are an indictment of America’s present and past inequalities.⏎The
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.⏎Tonsillectomies for Adults⏎Though tonsillectomies are performed more on children, adults can also benefit from the surgical procedure. People of all ages can develop tonsillitis but it is more common for people ages
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 form of the form of the form of the form of the form of the form of the form of the form of the form of the form of the form of the form of the form of the form of the form of the form of
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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by itself. Therefore, a number of the more popular study questions include (but are not limited to) whether there are connections
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?<|endoftext|>& Tornado Alley⏎Jan Mikusinski developed an operational calculus which is relevant for solving differential equations. His operational calculus is based upon an algebra of the convolution of functions with respect to the Fourier transform. From the convolution product he goes
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something of the frightful extent of this scourge, when we remember that it claimed as victims
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same slope, m = 2, and we know that,⏎Lines with the same slope are parallel.⏎Hence, the given lines are parallel.⏎Let's
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
- L17:2467 suppresses
- L19:226 excites
- L8:1090 weakly suppresses
- L8:16 weakly suppresses
- L6:1658 weakly suppresses
- L17:317 weakly excites 'of' after a noun phrase
- L0:2265 weakly excites
- L18:1659 weakly suppresses
- L12:125 weakly excites
- L3:189 weakly excites
- L12:826 weakly suppresses 'study' in science news
- L5:86 weakly suppresses
- L14:2810 weakly excites
- L4:1315 weakly suppresses
- L6:17 weakly suppresses
- L19:715 weakly excites
- L15:2431 weakly excites
- L8:1309 weakly suppresses
- L6:956 weakly excites
- L0:37 weakly suppresses
- L0:189 weakly suppresses
- L19:1869 weakly suppresses
- L12:1106 weakly excites
- L7:2705 weakly suppresses
Feeds later layers
- L23:1278 strongly suppresses
- L24:3005 strongly suppresses
- L24:611 suppresses
- L27:966 suppresses
- L22:1873 suppresses
- L27:688 suppresses
- L26:711 suppresses 'years' after an age number
- L23:567 suppresses
- L27:447 suppresses
- L25:1400 suppresses
- L21:2062 weakly suppresses
- L22:142 weakly excites 'of' after a quantity or noun phrase
- L23:867 weakly suppresses
- L24:2753 weakly suppresses
- L21:2461 weakly suppresses
- L23:365 weakly excites
- L21:2342 weakly suppresses
- L23:2174 weakly suppresses
- L22:288 weakly suppresses
- L23:1402 weakly excites
- L27:602 weakly suppresses
- L26:920 weakly suppresses
- L27:2151 weakly suppresses
- L24:2791 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
- ambique
- ITOR
- 可靠
- ес
- ethoven
- inyin
- |_|
- slightest
- imensional
- 鞅
Suppresses
- form
- 形式
- Form
- 的形式
- forme
- type
- _form
- form
- forma
- →form