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Qwen3-0.6B

'as' in 'as ... as possible'

A neuron in layer 23 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 quickly as possible' or 'as simple as possible'. When it was turned down, the model got stuck repeating the word 'possible' over and over.

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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

    member companies, other industries and with federal, state and local governments to prepare for hurricanes and return operations as quickly and as safely as possible.⏎API member companies also independently work to improve preparedness for hurricanes and other

  2. #2 peak

    be certified by a physician, licensed clinical psychologist or psychiatrist.⏎The goal of homebound instruction is to facilitate the student’s return to the current classroom setting as soon as medically indicated. Homebound instruction is temporary. Requests for homebound instruction extending beyond

  3. #3 peak

    , or surgery that will cure osteogenesis imperfecta (OI). The goal of treatment is to prevent deformities and fractures and allow the child to function as independently as possible. Treatments for preventing or correcting symptoms may include the following:⏎Management of

  4. #4 peak

    base Alpha was developed in support of those goals."⏎In addition to funding the game, NASA also had a hand in ensuring that it was as accurate as possible, going so far as to have several engineers and scientists review the game for

  5. #5 peak

    "deferred" items in relation to accounting transactions, we begin to go further into the reporting side of accounting, and in order to keep this article as simple as possible, we are not going to expand on the relationship of deferred items to balance

  6. #6 peak

    cattle have shown it is as effective as current vaccines. Whilst a commercial product is still several years away, the team hopes that the technology can be transferred as quickly as possible to make it available to a global market.⏎One of the problems of existing

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: what is the number of distinct self-possible-possible-POPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPO

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

    able to participate in the planning and execution of treatment plans. The Merchant of Venice is currently undergoing the prescribed treatment plan.⏎The conservation of these historical works has been made possible through the generosity of the Scripps

  2. #2 peak

    advent of deep learning is changing this landscape and putting automation in reach. Resources such as open-source libraries, Nvidia hardware, and FLIR cameras are helping to make this change happen.⏎Deep Learning Made Easier⏎Deep learning is a powerful tool for

  3. #3 peak

    incorrectly, an oil-analysis program is a waste of time and money. Key guidelines include:⏎- Take warmed-up machine samples while equipment is running. If that’s not possible, sample no later than 30 minutes after shutdown⏎- Use clean

  4. #4 peak

    taking steps to ensure that water and air quality are adequately protected during surface and subsurface natural gas development activities.⏎The recent increases in domestic natural gas supplies have been made possible by two technologies—horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing—that allow energy companies to

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. L18:2565 excites
  2. L20:2994 excites
  3. L21:2006 excites "as ... as possible" phrasing
  4. L19:1307 excites
  5. L22:550 suppresses
  6. L19:2765 excites
  7. L22:1104 suppresses
  8. L20:1501 weakly excites
  9. L13:2522 weakly excites
  10. L15:1930 weakly suppresses
  11. L19:292 weakly excites
  12. L7:63 weakly excites
  13. L18:3049 weakly suppresses
  14. L12:2265 weakly suppresses
  15. L14:444 weakly suppresses
  16. L19:818 weakly excites
  17. L21:1056 weakly excites
  18. L21:1047 weakly excites
  19. L22:2450 weakly suppresses
  20. L20:2485 weakly excites
  21. L14:2447 weakly suppresses
  22. L18:1481 weakly suppresses
  23. L18:1564 weakly suppresses
  24. L4:229 weakly excites

Feeds later layers

  1. L27:955 strongly suppresses
  2. L25:1792 strongly suppresses the modal word 'may'
  3. L25:2051 strongly suppresses
  4. L24:766 suppresses
  5. L26:466 suppresses
  6. L25:1767 weakly suppresses
  7. L24:1814 weakly suppresses
  8. L27:1763 weakly suppresses
  9. L26:2632 weakly excites
  10. L25:1211 weakly suppresses
  11. L27:500 weakly suppresses
  12. L27:2787 weakly excites
  13. L25:2788 weakly suppresses
  14. L27:1130 weakly excites
  15. L25:1010 weakly suppresses
  16. L25:1294 weakly suppresses
  17. L26:1425 weakly suppresses
  18. L25:1328 weakly excites
  19. L26:2325 weakly suppresses
  20. L25:752 weakly suppresses
  21. L24:378 weakly excites
  22. L25:2063 weakly suppresses the word before 'risk'
  23. L27:2796 weakly excites
  24. L27:1571 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.

1 values between -36.97 and -35.751 values between -26.00 and -24.791 values between -22.35 and -21.132 values between -21.13 and -19.912 values between -19.91 and -18.692 values between -15.04 and -13.822 values between -12.60 and -11.382 values between -11.38 and -10.173 values between -10.17 and -8.956 values between -8.95 and -7.733 values between -7.73 and -6.516 values between -6.51 and -5.2911 values between -5.29 and -4.0716 values between -4.07 and -2.8631 values between -2.86 and -1.64196 values between -1.64 and -0.423334 values between -0.42 and 0.80272 values between 0.80 and 2.023 values between 2.02 and 3.247 values between 3.24 and 4.462 values between 4.46 and 5.672 values between 6.89 and 8.111 values between 8.11 and 9.332 values between 10.55 and 11.77offnegativepositiveoften

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. spir
  2. oleon
  3. ffd
  4. bie
  5. itals
  6. SPAN
  7. 换了
  8. द
  9. Esp
  10. mpr

Suppresses

  1. possible
  2. possible
  3. Possible
  4. Possible
  5. posible
  6. possível
  7. possibile
  8. 可能
  9. possibility
  10. _possible