"of" in fixed name phrases
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. 22 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 lights up on the word "of" in set phrases and names like "City of David", "Son of God" or "Land of 10,000 Lakes". When it was turned up, the model's text drifted into unrelated topics and did not clearly change in a single direction.
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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great joy that will be for all the people. 11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. 12 And this will
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was exchanged for money will come back to him in the year of Jubilee. For the houses of the towns of the Levites are their property among the children of Israel.⏎But
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away with the impression that Hindu and Muslim beliefs are utterly wrong, and certainly the basic premise of Islam condemns the heretical Christian claim that Jesus was the son of God. In 1987, it boasted a membership of more than
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for the sign of the Prophet Jonah, “As Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights, so also shall the Son of Man be
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lifting as you pull. The experience when it happens can be anything from an element that just won’t turn on to something resembling a Fourth of July fireworks display. This means your oven and stove will be out of commission until
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858, created from the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory. The declare has a large number of lakes, and is known by the slogan the “Land of 10,000 Lakes”. Its certified motto is L’to
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: *To make a positive and healthy and safe and safe and safe and safe and safe and safe and safe and safe and safe and safe and safe and safe and safe and safe and safe and safe and safe and safe and safe and safe and
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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a...⏎Birthplace: Shadwell, Albemarle County, VirginiaReligion: Christian (no specific denomination)College Attended: College of William and Mary,...⏎Spend a day in the life of the multi-talented man
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survey courses in British, European, and World History.⏎Alan J. Ward is the Class of 1935 Professor of Government at the College of William and Mary in Virginia. He is a past president of the American Conference for Irish Studies
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.⏎Read the rest of this entry »⏎Filed under: Gaming, Services, Software, 3 million dollar grant, Associate Professor, Augmented reality, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Common Core, Common Core standards, Education, education arcade
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⏎$3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will fund development⏎by Eric Klopfer⏎MIT Education
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
- L20:2112 weakly suppresses
- L19:1665 weakly excites
- L20:2069 weakly excites
- L19:1704 weakly suppresses
- L21:1459 weakly excites
- L21:827 weakly suppresses
- L20:672 weakly suppresses
- L20:1884 weakly suppresses
- L10:1105 weakly excites
- L20:1460 weakly excites
- L3:716 weakly excites
- L21:2249 weakly suppresses
- L11:1291 weakly excites
- L20:949 weakly suppresses
- L15:2345 weakly suppresses
- L12:1840 weakly suppresses
- L11:763 weakly suppresses
- L14:164 weakly excites
- L13:1188 weakly excites
- L13:12 weakly excites
- L0:74 weakly excites
- L17:44 weakly excites
- L21:1342 weakly excites
- L11:1234 weakly excites
Feeds later layers
- L26:898 excites
- L23:2720 weakly excites
- L27:496 weakly excites
- L23:2035 weakly suppresses
- L23:358 weakly excites
- L24:1627 weakly excites
- L23:124 weakly excites
- L24:952 weakly suppresses
- L26:739 weakly suppresses
- L25:141 weakly excites
- L24:312 weakly suppresses
- L25:1880 weakly excites
- L23:1491 weakly suppresses
- L25:2664 weakly excites
- L24:2179 weakly excites
- L26:102 weakly suppresses
- L23:1638 weakly excites
- L26:463 weakly excites digits inside years and numbers
- L25:1755 weakly excites
- L26:464 weakly excites
- L25:1424 weakly suppresses
- L23:1817 weakly excites
- L27:2486 weakly suppresses
- L25:432 weakly excites
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
- 樵
- 北约
- radi
- DBObject
- вопросы
- board
- prohibit
- ///<
- linky
- región
Suppresses
- uez
- .hh
- ental
- иров
- uder
- effet
- ty
- stra
- eer
- uate