Neuron Explorer

Qwen3-0.6B

word fragments like ev and v

A neuron in layer 26 of Qwen3-0.6B. Its strongest snippets are fairly consistent: several of them peak on the same token. It is featured, so it has steering outputs.

What this neuron does

This neuron fires on a short fragment of a longer word that is split in two, such as the "ev" in "evoked" or the "v" in "nightvision". It is strongly negative on a capital V inside a name, such as "Vespasianus" or "Vjosa". Turning it down or up made the model repeat phrases like "relative relative" or "the condition was", so the steering shows no clear meaning.

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

    radical idea of powerful, independent women living in exotic lands evoked ambivalent emotions in the Greeks: awe, fear, respect, and desire

  2. #2 peak

    Hau.⏎While slow-speed light is now confined to the realm of laboratory research, Hau believes future practical applications include improved communications technology, television displays and night-vision devices.⏎Tags: Lene Vestergaard Hau, physicist,

  3. #3 peak

    , is the 19th-century sheet music for Handel's Acis and Galatea. The Greek mythological origin of the story is evoked on the front cover, which features a couple in classical dress in a Mediterranean

  4. #4 peak

    Dussehra-Vijaya Dashami-Dasara Festival Story, Why Do We Celebrate D

  5. #5 peak

    on things that have meaning to us now, or that will have some value for us in the future.⏎- The Positive Principle – which coins that appreciative inquiry evokes positive emotions like hope, inquisitiveness, and motivation, all of

  6. #6 peak

    channels in muscle cells that control the flow of calcium ions, creating muscle contractions. Normally, electrical stimulation (“excitation”) of isolated muscle fibers under experimental conditions evokes a muscle contraction, a phenomenon known as “excitation-contraction coupling

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: loveability relative to relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative

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

    20px Jews of Judea⏎|Titus Flavius Vespasianus||Simon Bar Giora|| John of Gischala

  2. #2 peak

    idea what they are destroying. There is nothing in Europe remotely like this river system.”⏎From the mountains of Greece where it is known as the Aoös, the Vjosa flows for 270km to the Adriatic Sea, reaching

  3. #3 peak

    Saint-Galmier (Loire).⏎Seven years later, he found a partnership with Bessac and the painter Joséphus Veyrat. Then, he set up his own business in Grigny,

  4. #4 peak

    is free to browse the archives for truly amazing photos of celestial artwork. I’ve picked 10 of my favorite to showcase here.⏎Captured by Stephane Vetter, this image “was taken two months ago over Jökulsárl

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. L22:300 strongly suppresses
  2. L18:423 suppresses
  3. L20:336 suppresses
  4. L1:18 suppresses
  5. L7:674 excites
  6. L0:2419 excites
  7. L23:2815 suppresses
  8. L17:134 suppresses
  9. L18:198 suppresses
  10. L5:1712 suppresses
  11. L21:252 excites
  12. L16:95 suppresses
  13. L17:765 excites
  14. L5:1294 excites
  15. L6:875 excites
  16. L18:687 excites
  17. L2:1518 weakly suppresses
  18. L2:1585 weakly suppresses
  19. L18:1023 weakly suppresses the digit 3 inside numbers
  20. L10:237 weakly suppresses
  21. L19:593 weakly excites
  22. L25:2927 weakly suppresses
  23. L19:974 weakly suppresses
  24. L16:143 weakly excites

Feeds later layers

  1. L27:1528 weakly excites
  2. L27:1713 weakly excites
  3. L27:1920 weakly suppresses
  4. L27:1385 weakly suppresses
  5. L27:2127 weakly excites
  6. L27:2343 weakly excites capital N starting a name or word
  7. L27:1860 weakly suppresses capital V starting a word
  8. L27:995 weakly suppresses
  9. L27:2929 weakly excites the letter c splitting a word
  10. L27:1566 weakly excites
  11. L27:1431 weakly excites
  12. L27:822 weakly excites
  13. L27:3002 weakly suppresses
  14. L27:1015 weakly suppresses
  15. L27:2442 weakly suppresses
  16. L27:552 weakly suppresses
  17. L27:808 weakly suppresses
  18. L27:751 weakly suppresses
  19. L27:343 weakly suppresses
  20. L27:2430 weakly suppresses
  21. L27:2276 weakly suppresses
  22. L27:1725 weakly excites
  23. L27:2356 weakly excites
  24. L27:2445 weakly excites capital B starting a name or citation

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 -67.81 and -65.341 values between -33.17 and -30.691 values between -28.22 and -25.741 values between -23.27 and -20.802 values between -18.32 and -15.851 values between -15.85 and -13.371 values between -13.37 and -10.904 values between -10.90 and -8.4213 values between -8.42 and -5.9519 values between -5.95 and -3.4795 values between -3.47 and -1.003618 values between -1.00 and 1.4898 values between 1.48 and 3.9530 values between 3.95 and 6.439 values between 6.43 and 8.906 values between 8.90 and 11.383 values between 11.38 and 13.852 values between 16.32 and 18.802 values between 18.80 and 21.271 values between 28.70 and 31.17offnegativepositiveoften

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. olars
  2. лад
  3. ive
  4. ict
  5. ivo
  6. oxid
  7. ictory
  8. intage
  9. ic
  10. olar

Suppresses

  1. alte
  2. lying
  3. ellas
  4. naire
  5. uron
  6. attributeName
  7. essential
  8. ('\\
  9. laws
  10. antaged