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Qwen3-0.6B

'the' after a preposition or verb

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 'the' when it follows a preposition or action word, such as 'through the', 'for the', or 'reap the'. It is weaker and less clear on 'the' right after 'is'. The steering outputs do not show an obvious theme.

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

    work in progress. We shall supplement it as we use the Actoz°° system created and developed by Prof. Jean-Pierre Dedieu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Dedieu, senior research fellow at CNRS http

  2. #2 peak

    more effectively engage with, support, and meet the needs of youth and young adults of color whom they serve. The brief also presents

  3. #3 peak

    to America's melancholia.⏎The United States in early 1964 was a society on the brink of profound transformation.⏎Rock-and-roll music, through the auspices of Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and others, had

  4. #4 peak

    program designed to help all families - whether they be single or married parents, grandparents, aunts or uncles, foster or adoptive parents or anyone responsible for the care of children aged 10 - 15 years old. Families in

  5. #5 peak

    emphasis is placed on a narrow set of academic tasks, students fail to develop life skills. MIT graduates will first need to lead balanced personal lives before they can reap the rewards of professional success.⏎To develop solutions that promote work/life balance, we

  6. #6 peak

    th century Christian Europe willingly looked upon him as an international judge.⏎He was renowned for his charity. “The peace and blessings of the realm come to us through the poor,” he would say. Beggars were fed from his table; he

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: this is a 17th- and 18th-century English writer, so can we have a section of this writer's world in a modern, English, and thus, a now-both-both-both-both-

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

    ’m a fan of physicist Richard Feynman, and one of his most memorable quotes explains that “Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts.”⏎Indeed, the “experts” of

  2. #2 peak

    trace, or are glued from coffee filters or produced using a 3D printer at home: Necessity is the mother of invention, but can sometimes be considered a crime. With the reprocessing

  3. #3 peak

    www.healthscout.com/template.asp?id=669525<|endoftext|>It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.⏎– James Baldwin⏎Four decades of neoliberal

  4. #4 peak

    2014.<|endoftext|>The more I read about this, the more confused I become. Illuminance, as I understand it, measured in lux, is the perceived brightness of light on a surface. It

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. L17:30 suppresses
  2. L20:361 excites
  3. L16:1851 suppresses
  4. L19:427 suppresses
  5. L16:792 excites "the" inside a prepositional phrase
  6. L21:614 weakly excites
  7. L20:219 weakly excites "the" after time or place prepositions
  8. L16:419 weakly excites
  9. L2:2526 weakly suppresses
  10. L21:20 weakly suppresses
  11. L17:1346 weakly excites
  12. L9:240 weakly excites
  13. L18:602 weakly suppresses
  14. L4:2324 weakly excites
  15. L5:2324 weakly excites
  16. L1:2023 weakly suppresses
  17. L19:1175 weakly excites
  18. L18:799 weakly excites
  19. L13:1975 weakly excites
  20. L19:1818 weakly excites
  21. L20:2723 weakly suppresses
  22. L6:443 weakly suppresses
  23. L17:1771 weakly excites
  24. L1:1442 weakly excites

Feeds later layers

  1. L27:480 weakly excites
  2. L27:1354 weakly excites
  3. L27:730 weakly suppresses
  4. L24:1439 weakly suppresses
  5. L26:430 weakly excites name fragments inside split words
  6. L26:374 weakly suppresses
  7. L25:1814 weakly suppresses
  8. L26:1046 weakly suppresses
  9. L27:2150 weakly excites
  10. L23:1557 weakly excites
  11. L23:1496 weakly excites
  12. L26:2134 weakly suppresses
  13. L26:2593 weakly suppresses
  14. L24:319 weakly suppresses
  15. L27:1162 weakly excites
  16. L24:641 weakly suppresses
  17. L27:2336 weakly excites
  18. L26:196 weakly suppresses
  19. L23:2501 weakly suppresses
  20. L25:1874 weakly excites
  21. L26:1542 weakly excites
  22. L27:1670 weakly suppresses
  23. L23:2952 weakly excites
  24. L27:1750 weakly suppresses

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.

3 values between -10.59 and -9.621 values between -9.62 and -8.654 values between -6.71 and -5.745 values between -5.74 and -4.779 values between -4.77 and -3.8020 values between -3.80 and -2.8337 values between -2.83 and -1.86115 values between -1.86 and -0.892465 values between -0.89 and 0.08982 values between 0.08 and 1.05100 values between 1.05 and 2.0236 values between 2.02 and 2.9931 values between 2.99 and 3.9621 values between 3.96 and 4.9317 values between 4.93 and 5.9016 values between 5.90 and 6.8713 values between 6.87 and 7.848 values between 7.84 and 8.811 values between 8.81 and 9.783 values between 9.78 and 10.754 values between 10.75 and 11.721 values between 11.72 and 12.692 values between 12.69 and 13.661 values between 13.66 and 14.635 values between 14.63 and 15.613 values between 15.61 and 16.582 values between 16.58 and 17.551 values between 17.55 and 18.522 values between 27.25 and 28.22offnegativepositiveoften

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. unique
  2. >\
  3. needs
  4. usive
  5. >-
  6. uess
  7. ",-
  8. >null
  9. lush
  10. (unique

Suppresses

  1. yms
  2. effect
  3. 做什么
  4. 媾
  5. يون
  6. Become
  7. [src
  8. Aspect
  9. jabi
  10. ction