space before a number, often an age
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. 24 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 responds to the blank space just before a number, especially when the number is an age or a count of years, like 'at age 22' or 'just 18 and small'. It does not do much else that is clear, and the steering outputs drifted to unrelated topics or to repeated digits.
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 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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family than her husband.⏎El Cid was raised in the court of Ferdinand I, where he was promoted to armiger regis (standard bearer) at age 22. He had also receive the title of "The Champion", which in
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ist:⏎Baldwin, born in 1795, moved to Philadelphia from his birthplace of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, at 16 years old. Originally trained as a jeweler, he went on to
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visual aspects but ignore verbal signals, which are more prevalent in the media, especially TV."⏎Taylor interviewed nearly 200 college undergraduates between the ages of 18 to 26. The students were randomly assigned to groups and shown
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the NFB collection (60 in English; 60 in French in the French part). Of those, 48 (24 in English; 24 in French in the French part) include an audio description for the blind
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smith trade before enlisting in the Union Army.⏎In 1861, William enlisted in the Pennsylvania 11th Reserve Infantry. He was just 18 and small in stature. Military officials refused to swear him in without the
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three and a half decades. The average age of first-time mothers has increased by 3.6 years over last 36 years, from the age of 21.4 years in 1970 to the age of
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.
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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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the land and its resources is a basic need for effective government and a productive economy in any nation. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), celebrating its 13
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teacher will give you a set of cards. Match each scatter plot with a pair of variables. Be prepared to explain your reasoning.<|endoftext|>The Saturday Evening Post turns 200 this year, so we are bringing you excerpts from our archive to
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problems (7 points each, so 35 points). Part C has 3 traditional problems (15 points each so 45 points). Total is 92 points. Closed book, no calculators or computers but you may use
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alleable but harder than calcium. It is chiefly employed (as in the nitrate) to color pyrotechnic flames red. Symbol Sr. Atomic weight 87
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
- L23:2592 strongly excites
- L21:1732 strongly excites
- L23:775 strongly excites
- L22:2854 excites
- L22:610 excites
- L21:2502 excites
- L21:1954 suppresses
- L23:1774 excites
- L23:1858 excites
- L22:623 excites
- L22:2408 excites
- L23:2835 suppresses
- L21:2918 suppresses
- L23:2142 suppresses
- L21:326 suppresses
- L23:2882 excites
- L12:1094 weakly excites
- L22:2146 weakly suppresses
- L23:2093 weakly suppresses
- L20:780 weakly excites 'of' before a measured value
- L20:2125 weakly excites
- L23:1255 weakly excites
- L21:1104 weakly suppresses
- L22:3013 weakly suppresses
Feeds later layers
- L25:342 excites
- L25:1020 excites
- L25:1478 excites
- L27:1100 suppresses
- L25:1087 suppresses word right before a number value
- L27:205 excites
- L26:580 weakly suppresses
- L25:1172 weakly excites
- L27:1157 weakly excites
- L25:2383 weakly suppresses
- L26:754 weakly excites
- L25:2029 weakly suppresses
- L25:1613 weakly suppresses
- L25:2971 weakly suppresses
- L25:845 weakly suppresses
- L27:2392 weakly suppresses
- L25:2664 weakly suppresses
- L26:3036 weakly excites
- L25:1702 weakly suppresses
- L26:905 weakly suppresses
- L26:522 weakly suppresses
- L25:1578 weakly excites
- L26:868 weakly excites
- L26:834 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
- achable
- ropol
- 发现
- iotic
- 指出
- 发现自己
- 발견
- iti
- iter
- _UNIQUE
Suppresses
- PLY
- .backward
- готов
- backtrack
- nation
- oriously
- bum
- osas
- .Flag
- ders