Neuron Explorer

Qwen3-0.6B

"of" in fixed name phrases

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

  1. #1 peak

    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

  2. #2 peak

    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

  3. #3 peak

    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

  4. #4 peak

    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

  5. #5 peak

    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

  6. #6 peak

    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

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: *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.

  1. #1 peak

    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

  2. #2 peak

    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

  3. #3 peak

    .⏎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

  4. #4 peak

    ⏎$3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will fund development⏎by Eric Klopfer⏎MIT Education

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. L20:2112 weakly suppresses
  2. L19:1665 weakly excites
  3. L20:2069 weakly excites
  4. L19:1704 weakly suppresses
  5. L21:1459 weakly excites
  6. L21:827 weakly suppresses
  7. L20:672 weakly suppresses
  8. L20:1884 weakly suppresses
  9. L10:1105 weakly excites
  10. L20:1460 weakly excites
  11. L3:716 weakly excites
  12. L21:2249 weakly suppresses
  13. L11:1291 weakly excites
  14. L20:949 weakly suppresses
  15. L15:2345 weakly suppresses
  16. L12:1840 weakly suppresses
  17. L11:763 weakly suppresses
  18. L14:164 weakly excites
  19. L13:1188 weakly excites
  20. L13:12 weakly excites
  21. L0:74 weakly excites
  22. L17:44 weakly excites
  23. L21:1342 weakly excites
  24. L11:1234 weakly excites

Feeds later layers

  1. L26:898 excites
  2. L23:2720 weakly excites
  3. L27:496 weakly excites
  4. L23:2035 weakly suppresses
  5. L23:358 weakly excites
  6. L24:1627 weakly excites
  7. L23:124 weakly excites
  8. L24:952 weakly suppresses
  9. L26:739 weakly suppresses
  10. L25:141 weakly excites
  11. L24:312 weakly suppresses
  12. L25:1880 weakly excites
  13. L23:1491 weakly suppresses
  14. L25:2664 weakly excites
  15. L24:2179 weakly excites
  16. L26:102 weakly suppresses
  17. L23:1638 weakly excites
  18. L26:463 weakly excites digits inside years and numbers
  19. L25:1755 weakly excites
  20. L26:464 weakly excites
  21. L25:1424 weakly suppresses
  22. L23:1817 weakly excites
  23. L27:2486 weakly suppresses
  24. L25:432 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.

2 values between -8.59 and -8.142 values between -5.47 and -5.031 values between -5.03 and -4.582 values between -4.58 and -4.141 values between -4.14 and -3.692 values between -3.69 and -3.251 values between -3.25 and -2.801 values between -2.80 and -2.369 values between -2.36 and -1.923 values between -1.92 and -1.4716 values between -1.47 and -1.03117 values between -1.03 and -0.581025 values between -0.58 and -0.142353 values between -0.14 and 0.31281 values between 0.31 and 0.7536 values between 0.75 and 1.2024 values between 1.20 and 1.646 values between 1.64 and 2.096 values between 2.09 and 2.534 values between 2.53 and 2.985 values between 3.42 and 3.874 values between 3.87 and 4.311 values between 4.31 and 4.762 values between 6.09 and 6.542 values between 7.87 and 8.311 values between 8.31 and 8.761 values between 8.76 and 9.20offnegativepositiveoften

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. 樵
  2. 北约
  3. radi
  4. DBObject
  5. вопросы
  6. board
  7. prohibit
  8. ///<
  9. linky
  10. región

Suppresses

  1. uez
  2. .hh
  3. ental
  4. иров
  5. uder
  6. effet
  7. ty
  8. stra
  9. eer
  10. uate