unclear: numbers and distance words
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 mixed: they peak on different tokens. 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
It mostly lights up on digits inside measurements and on words about how far apart things are, like feet, miles and distance. It is hard to tell what ties these together. Turning it up made the model write about random topics, and turning it down made it repeat the word distance.
Written by Claude from this neuron's activations and steering outputs. Confidence: low. 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: a 2005 a 100005 2007 10012 10025 10040 10050 1005
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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endurance athletes, and particularly marathon and ultramarathon runners use to keep them fueled during such a long workout:⏎-C
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Gulo gulo luscus) is a medium-sized, solitary carnivore adapted for digging, climbing, and traveling long distances in deep snow during the winter. Since the wolverine is a highly
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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
- L16:959 suppresses
- L21:1767 suppresses
- L21:2873 excites
- L20:1362 excites
- L19:2238 suppresses
- L22:1886 suppresses
- L21:1566 excites
- L22:1820 suppresses
- L17:2571 excites
- L20:2226 suppresses
- L22:1000 excites
- L20:2627 weakly suppresses
- L21:3052 weakly excites
- L21:2547 weakly suppresses
- L21:235 weakly excites
- L4:2856 weakly suppresses
- L22:2328 weakly excites
- L22:2790 weakly suppresses
- L10:2474 weakly suppresses
- L21:1177 weakly excites
- L17:2308 weakly excites
- L17:1511 weakly suppresses
- L8:2828 weakly suppresses
- L8:918 weakly excites
Feeds later layers
- L24:2692 strongly suppresses
- L26:2180 strongly suppresses
- L27:2830 suppresses
- L26:2281 suppresses
- L27:1178 suppresses
- L26:2903 suppresses
- L24:712 suppresses 'long' in 'long-term' and 'long-lasting'
- L26:1469 suppresses
- L24:587 suppresses
- L24:1238 suppresses blank space before a number
- L27:1469 weakly suppresses
- L24:1219 weakly suppresses
- L24:2127 weakly suppresses
- L25:319 weakly suppresses
- L24:2153 weakly suppresses
- L26:1910 weakly suppresses
- L24:1336 weakly excites
- L25:313 weakly suppresses
- L24:1394 weakly suppresses
- L27:1555 weakly suppresses
- L25:1808 weakly suppresses
- L25:1354 weakly suppresses
- L24:2174 weakly suppresses
- L24:1289 weakly excites
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
- redient
- �回
- xiv
- rait
- elier
- ộc
- ören
- 内阁
- AssemblyVersion
- 拈
Suppresses
- distance
- distances
- Distance
- distance
- Distance
- (distance
- 距离
- distancia
- 距離
- _distance