'a' meaning one single
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. 23 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 small word 'a' when it means 'one single thing', as in 'a single chip' or 'a common ancestor'. Turning it up made the model repeat 'single' and 'a single person', so it seems tied to the idea of one.
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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other⏎storage engines. Also, this warning against sharing a data⏎directory among servers always applies in an NFS environment.⏎Permitting multiple MySQL servers to access a common data⏎directory over NFS is a very bad idea. The⏎primary problem
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, what causes depression, it is important to understand that there is a wide range of risk factors that can influence the chances of a person developing depression, rather than a singular cause.⏎Your genetics can be a significant factor in determining how likely you are
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CPU and graphics processor or GPU is generally present separately. Although the possibility technology PC processor to have an integrated graphics processor.⏎The CPU and GPU are generally integrated into a circuit board (motherboard) in which there is a chipset. This Chipset
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that is designed to control specific hardware functions. It consists of a central processing unit (CPU), memory, input/output peripherals, and various interfaces, all integrated into a single chip. Microcontrollers are programmable, which means that developers can write software
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(which form the sums of the product terms). We can simplify this representation still further ( Figure 5.11 c), by drawing the input lines to a multiple-input AND gate as if they were one horizontal wire, which we call a
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.⏎What is a "Microprocessor"?⏎A microprocessor is essentially an entire basic computer fitted on a single chip . Sure, computers purchased today usually come with peripherals like monitors, hard
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: one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one
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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can safely remove.⏎But remember that you should never cut off more than two-thirds of a root at any time.⏎Also,<|endoftext|>Title VII makes sexual discrimination, i.e., using gender
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obstacles even if we don’t know it, providing our daily portion from His granaries in the mysterious world of the beyond. We are not given too much all at once
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materials such as MyPlate. A "portion" is the amount of a food you choose to eat at any one time — which may be more or less than a serving.⏎Here are some
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if you try to do it all at once, you get overwhelmed," she said.⏎Don't get discouraged if you find
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
- L22:1176 strongly excites
- L20:1279 strongly suppresses
- L17:2592 excites
- L18:833 excites
- L20:1148 excites
- L22:1033 excites
- L17:2379 suppresses
- L19:2270 suppresses
- L18:2927 suppresses
- L16:2671 suppresses
- L15:1139 suppresses
- L19:2358 suppresses "any of" before "these" or "the"
- L17:2128 excites
- L17:2617 suppresses
- L21:1717 excites
- L15:2275 suppresses
- L19:2468 suppresses
- L18:2304 excites
- L20:2787 excites
- L21:828 suppresses
- L22:2728 suppresses
- L12:395 suppresses
- L19:2011 suppresses
- L20:2675 suppresses
Feeds later layers
- L26:1028 strongly suppresses
- L27:556 strongly suppresses
- L25:549 excites
- L24:979 suppresses
- L27:231 suppresses
- L25:572 suppresses
- L27:797 excites
- L26:2780 suppresses
- L27:709 excites
- L27:1422 suppresses
- L27:180 excites
- L27:902 weakly suppresses
- L25:1586 weakly excites
- L26:484 weakly excites
- L27:1454 weakly excites
- L24:1406 weakly suppresses
- L25:45 weakly suppresses
- L27:328 weakly suppresses
- L27:663 weakly excites
- L25:1187 weakly excites
- L26:1102 weakly suppresses fibromyalgia and hour counts
- L26:213 weakly suppresses
- L26:598 weakly suppresses spot just before a year or century
- L25:2924 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
- a
- single
- single
- 单
- (single
- arded
- Single
- )a
- sing
- 單
Suppresses
- one
- one
- One
- One
- ONE
- -one
- (one
- .one
- _one
- 一封