Neuron Explorer

Qwen3-0.6B

the 4 in years 184x, 164x

A neuron in layer 21 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 digit 4 inside years from the 1600s and 1800s, like 1847 or 1648. Turning it up did not produce a clear theme in the output.

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 activation was highest. Amber marks positive activation; the outlined token is the peak. Hover a token for its strength.

  1. #1 peak

    . A good place to start or to finish is at the beginning.⏎The first U.S. general-issue postage stamps were issued July 1, 1847: a 5¢ red brown Benjamin Franklin stamp (Scott 1)

  2. #2 peak

    Falls Convention was a meeting of supporters of women’s rights in the United States. The meeting took place on July 19-20, 1848, at Seneca Falls, New York. It helped to launch the U

  3. #3 peak

    the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester P

  4. #4 peak

    ax. This spruce gum, it should be noted, had little to no flavor and was akin to chewing on a piece of wood.⏎In 1848, an American businessman named John Bacon Curtis recognized the massive financial potential of turning

  5. #5 peak

    20th century.⏎© Science Museum / Science & Society Picture Library⏎This wall telephone uses the chalk receiver invented by Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) in 1878. Edison redesigned

  6. #6 peak

    5 John Hancock was elected president of the second Continental Congress.⏎In 1819 Queen Victoria was born in Kensington, near London.⏎In 1844 Samuel Morse transmitted the

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: it has been a little while, and I have to have a little more thanallyallyallyallyallyallyallyallyallyallyallyallyallyallyallyallyallyallyallyallyallyallyallyallyallyallyallyallyallyallyallyally

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

    -polluting nations such as<|endoftext|>Learning disabilities are neurologically based conditions that interfere with the acquisition, storage, organization, and use of

  2. #2 peak

    and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition, Revised criteria: (1) alcoholism with tolerance or dependence; (2) alcoholism with or without tolerance-dependence; and (3) alcoholism with or without tolerance-dependence or problem

  3. #3 peak

    is with format of⏎diff output, not just with⏎patch, because with odd enough file names one can cause⏎diff to generate a patch that is syntactically correct but⏎patches the wrong files. The<|endoftext|>Dante Gabriel Rosset

  4. #4 peak

    degree of autonomous operation. At the low end of autonomy, they could be deployed to handle traffic laws on their own. On the higher end, they could operate autonomously to conduct arrests of suspects who might resist arrest violently. Near the highest end

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. L20:61 strongly suppresses
  2. L2:202 strongly suppresses "of" after "many" or "which"
  3. L16:41 strongly excites
  4. L16:3 suppresses
  5. L0:117 excites
  6. L1:259 suppresses
  7. L4:216 excites
  8. L2:761 suppresses
  9. L18:853 suppresses
  10. L0:141 suppresses the word 'of' in 'middle of'
  11. L16:90 suppresses
  12. L4:524 excites
  13. L4:1214 excites
  14. L16:39 excites
  15. L19:43 excites
  16. L2:1753 excites
  17. L4:345 excites
  18. L5:1352 excites
  19. L18:1997 suppresses
  20. L3:459 suppresses
  21. L2:598 excites
  22. L20:854 excites
  23. L20:959 excites
  24. L20:895 suppresses

Feeds later layers

  1. L22:2467 excites
  2. L26:1696 suppresses
  3. L24:772 weakly suppresses
  4. L24:834 weakly excites
  5. L25:3070 weakly suppresses
  6. L22:1055 weakly excites
  7. L23:474 weakly suppresses
  8. L23:2661 weakly excites
  9. L23:515 weakly excites
  10. L23:508 weakly suppresses
  11. L23:1356 weakly suppresses
  12. L27:244 weakly excites
  13. L23:1364 weakly suppresses
  14. L23:999 weakly suppresses "be" after modal verbs
  15. L23:1114 weakly excites
  16. L25:1381 weakly excites
  17. L24:979 weakly excites
  18. L23:1817 weakly excites
  19. L27:767 weakly suppresses
  20. L22:563 weakly excites
  21. L22:1987 weakly suppresses
  22. L27:1501 weakly excites
  23. L25:1731 weakly excites
  24. L22:331 weakly excites

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 -33.03 and -31.451 values between -29.88 and -28.302 values between -21.99 and -20.413 values between -18.84 and -17.262 values between -14.10 and -12.532 values between -12.53 and -10.953 values between -10.95 and -9.374 values between -9.37 and -7.796 values between -7.79 and -6.2210 values between -6.22 and -4.6426 values between -4.64 and -3.0650 values between -3.06 and -1.482029 values between -1.48 and 0.091748 values between 0.09 and 1.6715 values between 1.67 and 3.253 values between 3.25 and 4.832 values between 4.83 and 6.401 values between 28.49 and 30.06offnegativepositiveoften

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. ive
  2. ly
  3. ic
  4. LY
  5. IVE
  6. enticated
  7. culate
  8. raries
  9. al
  10. भ

Suppresses

  1. ally
  2. als
  3. ality
  4. ials
  5. ically
  6. */;⏎
  7. ALLY
  8. ics
  9. (ball
  10. nal