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Qwen3-0.6B

'as' before 'well' or 'as much'

A neuron in layer 22 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 word 'as' in phrases like 'as well', 'as much as' and 'as well as', right before the model is likely to write 'well'. Its negative side is very weak and does not mean much. When it was turned up, the model wrote long runs of 'well well well', which shows the neuron is pushing toward that word.

Written by Claude from this neuron's activations and steering outputs. Confidence: high. 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

    (both images from Fri Aug 9 2019)⏎“Similar particles have been detected near Saturn, suggesting⏎that the process is at work there as well,” says Liu. “Indeed,” adds⏎Angelopoulos, “this type

  2. #2 peak

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  3. #3 peak

    your community soup kitchen, giving to others is a selfless act that benefits everyone involved. Did you know that generosity and giving to others can benefit your own wellbeing as much as it benefits those who receive your act of kindness?⏎It’s true.

  4. #4 peak

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  5. #5 peak

    is very effective in treating diabetes and heart disease in mice at the same time, and we believe it may turn out to be protective against asthma and other metabolic disorders as well.”⏎The laboratory animals showed no harmful effects from the treatment, though Hotam

  6. #6 peak

    new wonderful interactive SAMR visual for teachers. I just came across it while I was going through my Google Plus feeds and thought you may want to have a look as well. For those of you not yet familiar with what SAMR model is all

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

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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

    problems downloading a file, check if you have the proper application to view it first. In case of further problems read the IDEAS help page. Note that these files are not on the IDEAS site. Please be patient as the files may be

  2. #2 peak

    ”⏎The U.S. progressives in this era were a diverse group of reformers including socialists like the writer Upton Sinclair and the frequent Socialist presidential candidate Eugene Debs, but also Theodore Roosevelt, who after serving as a Republican president earlier,

  3. #3 peak

    web site to request a printed copy of this publication.⏎- Our on-line publications are scanned and captured using Adobe Acrobat. During the capture process some typographical errors may occur. Please contact Sharon Hobrla, email@example.com if you notice any

  4. #4 peak

    for-mation of the dissimilar metal joint and the measurement of joint tensile strength⏎Welding Method 6, Paragraph 188.8.131.52 (Paraphrased, still in public comment

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. L20:651 strongly excites
  2. L19:1570 strongly suppresses
  3. L19:2110 excites
  4. L19:2003 suppresses
  5. L17:1395 suppresses
  6. L20:1009 excites
  7. L18:1328 suppresses
  8. L19:164 suppresses
  9. L21:1973 suppresses
  10. L17:2765 suppresses
  11. L21:2038 suppresses
  12. L19:2502 excites
  13. L17:2081 excites
  14. L16:899 excites
  15. L18:2037 excites
  16. L18:409 excites
  17. L15:2010 suppresses
  18. L10:155 excites
  19. L21:1848 excites
  20. L18:2341 excites comma before an added clause
  21. L19:214 excites
  22. L18:2921 weakly suppresses period ending a sentence that announces a list
  23. L17:2623 weakly suppresses
  24. L19:2458 weakly excites

Feeds later layers

  1. L27:1410 strongly excites "as well" and "as much as"
  2. L27:1593 excites
  3. L27:172 weakly suppresses
  4. L27:457 weakly excites
  5. L25:1411 weakly excites
  6. L23:283 weakly excites
  7. L23:390 weakly excites
  8. L25:1498 weakly excites
  9. L27:490 weakly suppresses
  10. L27:655 weakly suppresses
  11. L25:995 weakly excites
  12. L24:2063 weakly excites
  13. L25:2940 weakly suppresses
  14. L27:1650 weakly excites
  15. L26:1612 weakly excites
  16. L25:2695 weakly suppresses
  17. L25:801 weakly excites
  18. L27:1420 weakly suppresses
  19. L25:2801 weakly suppresses
  20. L27:2971 weakly suppresses
  21. L25:1492 weakly suppresses
  22. L27:2285 weakly suppresses
  23. L27:680 weakly suppresses
  24. L27:1354 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 -5.77 and -3.902 values between -3.90 and -2.042480 values between -2.04 and -0.181402 values between -0.18 and 1.6917 values between 1.69 and 3.553 values between 5.41 and 7.281 values between 18.45 and 20.321 values between 27.77 and 29.631 values between 66.89 and 68.75offnegativepositiveoften

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. well
  2. well
  3. Well
  4. Well
  5. WELL
  6. bien
  7. wells
  8. 及
  9. 以及
  10. "Well

Suppresses

  1. 懒得
  2. ()")⏎
  3. ьер
  4. ↩
  5. 干嘛
  6. лон
  7. ees
  8. 帱
  9. NOM
  10. ");//