Neuron Explorer

Qwen3-0.6B

comma after author surname in citations

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 comma or initial right after a person's surname in reference lists, such as 'Rudman, W.B.' or 'Bullock, B.A.'. Turning it up made the model write garbled text full of single letters and unusual words, so the steering output tells us little about this neuron.

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

    a description of a new Elysia species. Bull. Mar. Sci. 30(1): 54-79.⏎Rudman, W.B., 2002 (October 7) Elysia

  2. #2 peak

    wise, Incorporated.<|endoftext|>Identifying time lags in the restoration of grassland butterfly communities: a multi-site assessment⏎Woodcock, B.A.; Bullock,

  3. #3 peak

    apua #PapuaNewGuinea. Save them by changing your weekly shop #Boycott4WildlifeTweet⏎Leary, T., Wright, D., Hamilton, S., Singadan, R., Menzies, J

  4. #4 peak

    LANGLEY, M. A. Crown 8vo. 65. ANATOMY⏎AND PHYSIOLOGY FOR NURSES. By D. C. KIMBER. 8vo. 10s. net

  5. #5 peak

    , 2008⏎Publication Date: May 16, 2008⏎Citation: Davis, L.M., Spackman, E. 2008. Do crocodilians get the flu?

  6. #6 peak

    3, “Pharmacotherapy of Bipolar Disorder” (pp. 37–47)⏎Preston, J. D., O’Neal, J. H., & Talaga, M. C. (201

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: the possible connection between the internal and the external, and the internal and the central. As I am 5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15

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

    . Additionally, going all day without eating and having dinner at night can affect the relationship between insulin and blood sugar. This can put you more at risk for Type 2 diabetes. This is one more reason that avoiding food all day and eating all

  2. #2 peak

    iales, family Anaplasmataceae; Dumler et al.,2001), systematically split into 6 supergroups, lettered from A to F (Lo et al., 2002). Those in supergroups

  3. #3 peak

    The so-called diabetes epidemic has made headlines, and for good reason. The number of cases of type 2 diabetes (the most common type) is exploding, and many more people are

  4. #4 peak

    A buildup of ketones can cause a dangerous condition called ketoacidosis. Your healthcare team may ask you to check for ketones, especially if you have type 1 diabetes.⏎When to check for ketones⏎Ketones in your blood

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. L20:912 strongly suppresses
  2. L21:306 strongly suppresses
  3. L22:1519 strongly excites
  4. L21:362 strongly excites
  5. L18:1962 strongly excites
  6. L14:1810 excites
  7. L20:2317 suppresses
  8. L20:3046 excites
  9. L19:1011 excites
  10. L19:2801 suppresses
  11. L19:2585 excites
  12. L22:2855 excites digits inside citation and DOI strings
  13. L19:2805 excites
  14. L22:1223 excites
  15. L18:1217 excites
  16. L21:1443 excites abbreviations in parentheses
  17. L19:2663 suppresses
  18. L18:2983 suppresses
  19. L20:1675 excites
  20. L22:930 excites
  21. L17:2262 suppresses
  22. L19:1829 suppresses opening bracket before an acronym
  23. L22:994 suppresses
  24. L16:2181 suppresses

Feeds later layers

  1. L26:539 strongly suppresses
  2. L26:386 strongly excites
  3. L25:2507 suppresses
  4. L27:316 excites
  5. L24:166 excites
  6. L24:355 excites
  7. L25:264 excites
  8. L27:468 excites
  9. L24:1731 excites
  10. L26:278 excites
  11. L26:411 excites
  12. L26:301 suppresses
  13. L27:817 suppresses
  14. L27:295 excites
  15. L25:1080 excites
  16. L24:213 suppresses
  17. L27:470 suppresses
  18. L26:977 excites
  19. L27:768 excites
  20. L25:1851 weakly excites
  21. L25:735 weakly suppresses
  22. L27:945 weakly suppresses
  23. L24:710 weakly suppresses
  24. L25:246 weakly excites

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 -22.83 and -21.311 values between -4.59 and -3.07150 values between -3.07 and -1.553557 values between -1.55 and -0.03138 values between -0.03 and 1.4931 values between 1.49 and 3.0113 values between 3.01 and 4.535 values between 4.53 and 6.056 values between 6.05 and 7.572 values between 9.09 and 10.611 values between 12.13 and 13.651 values between 13.65 and 15.171 values between 28.85 and 30.371 values between 36.45 and 37.97offnegativepositiveoften

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. c
  2. S
  3. s
  4. d
  5. C
  6. m
  7. M
  8. e
  9. r
  10. t

Suppresses

  1. sms
  2. erah
  3. mah
  4. ocz
  5. anter
  6. pbs
  7. /hr
  8. pz
  9. cms
  10. edException