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Qwen3-0.6B

'to' after a noun or adjective

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 'to' when it links to a following phrase, as in 'addicted to alcohol' or 'pushed to the brink'. It is strongest in that position and weaker in the phrase 'years to come'. Turning it up made the model's output loop on repeated words like 'the the the'.

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

    attachment which is harmful and difficult to break. This is not to say that all gambling is an addiction. Just as many people who drink alcoholic beverages are not addicted to alcohol consumption, so too is it the case that many people who engage in gambling

  2. #2 peak

    * The Beaver Fur Trade led to exploration of much of N.A. coureurs de bois: fur traders (N.F.)⏎Topic: Analyze the extent to which democratic ideals existed in colonial America prior to the American Revolution. Use relevant information

  3. #3 peak

    Replacing the bake or broil heating element in an electric oven is one of the easiest appliance repairs you’ll ever do… IF you unplug or kill power to range first. One is a blue wire that leads to the upper heating element.

  4. #4 peak

    a self-affirmation strategy in promoting message acceptance and behavior change of safe fish consumption. Structured outreach will be conducted to assess barriers, motivations, and concerns to advisory adherence. Using this information, effective and culturally appropriate outreach and educational materials for

  5. #5 peak

    past 3 days. They deny any known injury at that time. Examination reveals full motion of the right hip, knee, and ankle. He has tenderness to palpation over the anterior tibia with minimal swelling. No erythema

  6. #6 peak

    visitors to the camera website as of March 3, according to the statement from the DNR.⏎Bald eagles have made a powerful comeback after being pushed to the brink of extinction, according to the DNR. Minnesota has more bald eag

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: find bequenly re-arrage

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

    lock-style entrances to biometric scanners.⏎Good thing, too. Much of the planet relies on these cloud fortresses, and will do so even more in years to come. Remarkable as the cloud is, there is no reason to think it

  2. #2 peak

    on our understanding of autism genetics. Importantly, these efforts are already sparking new actions that will help benefit individuals with autism, and their families, in the years to come.⏎April is World Autism Awareness Month, and three years ago this week,

  3. #3 peak

    also provided a look ahead at the lab's continuing evolution and growth into new frontiers of scientific research that will keep it at the forefront of discovery for decades to come.<|endoftext|>Today’s Elements are made to get extremely hot with a relatively low

  4. #4 peak

    skinks – some of New Zealand’s rarest lizards. We hope that these skinks will breed to create a larger insurance population to conserve them for years to come. Our partnership with DoC allows Zoo staff to gain valuable field experience by

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. L19:858 suppresses
  2. L21:853 excites 'can' after 'and' or a noun subject
  3. L18:569 excites
  4. L17:1297 excites
  5. L16:1168 excites 'to' after verbs of change
  6. L22:627 suppresses
  7. L20:636 suppresses
  8. L8:14 excites
  9. L2:36 weakly excites
  10. L6:16 weakly excites
  11. L18:2303 weakly suppresses
  12. L21:109 weakly excites
  13. L21:1657 weakly suppresses
  14. L4:23 weakly excites
  15. L14:736 weakly excites
  16. L3:59 weakly excites
  17. L8:7 weakly excites
  18. L2:1774 weakly suppresses
  19. L3:1152 weakly suppresses
  20. L21:958 weakly excites
  21. L8:10 weakly excites
  22. L1:2801 weakly excites
  23. L1:2340 weakly suppresses
  24. L15:1587 weakly suppresses

Feeds later layers

  1. L25:364 strongly suppresses
  2. L26:296 strongly suppresses
  3. L24:298 strongly suppresses 'would' in hypothetical or past statements
  4. L26:225 strongly suppresses 'and' joining two abstract nouns
  5. L25:247 strongly excites
  6. L25:181 strongly suppresses
  7. L27:401 suppresses
  8. L27:201 suppresses
  9. L24:314 excites
  10. L27:247 suppresses
  11. L25:600 suppresses
  12. L26:675 suppresses
  13. L27:880 suppresses
  14. L27:900 suppresses
  15. L26:623 suppresses
  16. L24:290 suppresses 'to' in set phrases like 'to come'
  17. L26:597 suppresses
  18. L26:671 suppresses
  19. L24:156 excites
  20. L25:361 suppresses
  21. L24:864 suppresses 'to' before an infinitive
  22. L27:515 suppresses
  23. L26:769 suppresses
  24. L24:150 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.

3 values between -19.92 and -18.692 values between -17.45 and -16.213 values between -14.98 and -13.742 values between -13.74 and -12.512 values between -12.51 and -11.272 values between -11.27 and -10.033 values between -8.80 and -7.565 values between -7.56 and -6.332 values between -6.33 and -5.093 values between -5.09 and -3.8611 values between -3.86 and -2.627 values between -2.62 and -1.38119 values between -1.38 and -0.153712 values between -0.15 and 1.0916 values between 1.09 and 2.331 values between 2.33 and 3.563 values between 3.56 and 4.804 values between 4.80 and 6.031 values between 6.03 and 7.271 values between 10.98 and 12.212 values between 12.21 and 13.451 values between 13.45 and 14.681 values between 17.16 and 18.391 values between 23.34 and 24.571 values between 28.28 and 29.52offnegativepositiveoften

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. the
  2. ventional
  3. standing
  4. getting
  5. ationale
  6. sätze
  7. someone
  8. 这一切
  9. numerical
  10. stood

Suppresses

  1. solve
  2. ensure
  3. modify
  4. relate
  5. determine
  6. allocate
  7. define
  8. be
  9. contribute
  10. respond