'can' or 'could' before 'be found/read'
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 fires on the word 'can' (or 'could') when it sits between a noun and 'be' in a sentence like 'the full text can be read here'. Turned up, the model fell into repeating 'you can be' over and over, so the pattern shows up in the output too.
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 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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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: that the world is not as it seems, and that the world is very like a square square square. That's like the squares in the square square square, and that it's a square square square of the world's square square. I
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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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
- L21:2151 excites
- L18:2988 suppresses
- L19:943 excites
- L17:1964 excites
- L20:1381 suppresses
- L15:2752 suppresses
- L19:2560 excites
- L21:1591 weakly suppresses
- L18:2547 weakly suppresses
- L20:858 weakly excites
- L4:1088 weakly suppresses
- L13:2845 weakly suppresses
- L7:364 weakly suppresses
- L12:2183 weakly excites
- L17:2077 weakly excites
- L5:322 weakly excites
- L21:1948 weakly excites
- L16:1560 weakly suppresses
- L9:270 weakly excites
- L11:426 weakly excites
- L8:24 weakly suppresses
- L1:1176 weakly excites
- L21:1022 weakly suppresses
- L9:768 weakly suppresses
Feeds later layers
- L24:766 strongly excites
- L27:774 strongly excites
- L24:789 strongly excites
- L23:1193 excites
- L27:1592 suppresses
- L27:1815 excites
- L27:1699 excites
- L25:757 excites
- L23:739 excites
- L26:2879 suppresses
- L24:1814 suppresses
- L26:1401 weakly excites
- L24:1225 weakly excites
- L23:634 weakly suppresses
- L23:103 weakly suppresses
- L25:1775 weakly suppresses
- L25:1821 weakly excites
- L23:2058 weakly excites
- L25:2270 weakly excites
- L24:1105 weakly suppresses
- L27:2857 weakly excites
- L27:2940 weakly excites
- L26:2795 weakly suppresses
- L26:2100 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
- can
- 可以
- can
- 可
- 可以在
- Can
- Can
- .can
- (can
- →can
Suppresses
- ughter
- imps
- ->{$
- formats
- mailto
- яс
- -tags
- ester
- ][$
- $info