unclear: weak noun and pronoun activity
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. 21 of Qwen3-0.6B. Its strongest snippets are mixed: they peak on different tokens. 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
Its signals are weak and do not form a clear pattern. It loosely fires on nouns like 'years', 'seed' and 'music' and goes quiet on words like 'time' and 'ultimately'. Turning it up or down gave repetitive text, so it does not show a clear job.
Written by Claude from this neuron's activations and steering outputs. Confidence: low. 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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:⏎The results are still not perfect, and there is still much work to be done, but the technology is very promising, and we hope that in a few years we will have systems that can completely break down language barriers ... We may
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ery as a flower from a seed. No sooner did the soft, sweet note of the bow-string charm the ear of genius than music was born, and from music came poetry and painting and sculpture.⏎What the fragments of Sapphic song and
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4-5), “I will make your seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and I will give to your seed all these countries. And in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed because Abraham obeyed my voice,
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īvā- “the back part of the neck, nape, neck,” see Monier-Williams, p. 374; on this subject and on the etymology of further related Indo-European references which, among other things
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for a potential outbreak of measles. Officials in Herefordshire fear the epidemic in Wales means an outbreak is 'on the doorstep'.⏎They say that so far this year they've already had the same number of cases as they had for the whole of
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from Dakar. Issa the Fulani, from Senegal’s brushy hinterlands. Moustapha, most recently from Spain, where in five years he could
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: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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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the terminal circuit is complete.⏎Batteries work via a combination of oxidation and reduction. The anode oxidizes, meaning it loses electrons. At the same time, the cathode absorbs electrons in a process called reduction.
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entangled. The research also integrates the materials with chip-scale silicon photonic devices that confine the light to extremely small volume to enhance the light emission efficiency. Ultimately, this research provides significant insight into how to control the properties of atomically thin
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And Resolutions can be anything from eating healthier to spending more time with family. Resolutions may not have any specific timeline or plan of action associated with them⏎Ultimately, both goals and resolutions can help individuals reach their desired outcomes; however, it
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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
- L20:660 strongly excites
- L17:1845 excites
- L20:122 excites
- L19:1972 suppresses
- L17:2397 excites
- L20:2430 excites
- L18:160 suppresses
- L18:1791 suppresses
- L17:1426 excites
- L18:843 excites
- L13:1232 excites
- L11:237 suppresses
- L19:1084 suppresses "and" joining clauses after a condition
- L20:822 excites
- L20:2098 excites
- L16:1838 excites
- L20:132 excites
- L20:1312 suppresses
- L20:2891 suppresses
- L18:2996 suppresses
- L18:862 suppresses hedges like 'it turns out' and 'if any'
- L20:577 excites
- L15:1792 excites
- L20:277 suppresses
Feeds later layers
- L22:1124 strongly excites
- L23:298 excites
- L27:717 excites
- L22:360 excites
- L26:236 suppresses
- L22:689 excites comma closing an intro clause
- L26:715 excites
- L24:216 suppresses
- L27:86 excites
- L22:353 suppresses
- L22:368 suppresses
- L25:1221 suppresses
- L26:22 excites the 'res' fragment inside words
- L22:892 excites
- L25:247 excites
- L22:940 suppresses
- L27:108 suppresses
- L26:2123 suppresses
- L24:572 suppresses
- L25:234 excites
- L27:358 suppresses
- L24:1366 excites
- L26:693 weakly excites
- L27:286 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
- 我把
- they
- we
- 我
- you
- 我还是
- świadczenie
- 我发现
- 你
- everyone
Suppresses
- ,
- ,body
- ,
- ,en
- ,N
- ,U
- ،
- ,function
- ,Z
- ,M