Neuron Explorer

Qwen3-0.6B

the word 'I' as subject

A neuron in layer 26 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

It fires on the word 'I' when it starts a clause, as in 'I am working' or 'I think'. Turning it down made the model repeat 'am' over and over, and turning it up pushed the writing toward first-person talk.

Written by Claude from this neuron's activations and steering outputs. Confidence: high. 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

    itself, as in "I am doing my genealogy" or "I am working on my genealogy." What does that statement communicate to a non-g

  2. #2 peak

    out of the kindness of my heart, because they have some historical significance (as in the case of my review of the LM741) or most likely I think the technology is important and interesting. All opinions are my own and I would

  3. #3 peak

    proclaiming, “I am an American . . . I have constitutional rights.”⏎- A group called Health Freedom Idaho protested the Boise mask mandate

  4. #4 peak

    This scientist article is a stub. You can help Wikiquote by expanding it.|⏎- It is because I know all that science can bring to the world that I shall continue my efforts to ensure that it contributes to the happiness of all men,

  5. #5 peak

    the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear. 10 And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of

  6. #6 peak

    , 2014. Last Updated: August 18, 2014.<|endoftext|>The more I read about this, the more confused I become. Illuminance, as I understand it, measured in lux, is the

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: am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am

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

    industry, the main sectors include: food, mining, light, oil, engineering.⏎THE ECONOMY OF VIETNAM TODAY⏎Now Vietnam’s economy is developing rapidly, and for a couple of

  2. #2 peak

    ⏎culture is their culture; that same Aramaic language is their language.⏎stele of King Neram-Seen⏎THE PEOPLES OF MESOPOTAMIA⏎THE SUMERIANS— The history of⏎Ancient Iraq

  3. #3 peak

    and Decanters⏎E for Equipment⏎F for Fermentation⏎G for Glass and Grape⏎H for Harvest⏎I for Infusion⏎J for Jerobo

  4. #4 peak

    ,000,000,000 Styrofoam cups each year. Styrofoam is NOT recyclable; it cannot

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. L25:2560 strongly suppresses
  2. L25:2082 excites first-person 'I' starting a clause
  3. L25:2173 excites
  4. L22:1302 excites
  5. L25:1061 suppresses
  6. L25:2985 excites
  7. L23:2342 suppresses
  8. L18:569 excites
  9. L23:1871 excites
  10. L25:2152 weakly excites
  11. L25:1936 weakly suppresses
  12. L24:3009 weakly excites
  13. L22:1996 weakly suppresses
  14. L23:1712 weakly excites
  15. L25:983 weakly suppresses
  16. L23:1521 weakly suppresses
  17. L23:2864 weakly excites
  18. L25:2572 weakly excites
  19. L23:319 weakly suppresses
  20. L24:1084 weakly suppresses
  21. L24:2531 weakly suppresses
  22. L2:1629 weakly excites
  23. L25:1554 weakly excites
  24. L8:16 weakly suppresses

Feeds later layers

  1. L27:464 strongly suppresses
  2. L27:1292 suppresses
  3. L27:871 weakly suppresses
  4. L27:236 weakly suppresses
  5. L27:3014 weakly suppresses
  6. L27:422 weakly suppresses
  7. L27:1130 weakly suppresses
  8. L27:618 weakly suppresses
  9. L27:868 weakly excites
  10. L27:2088 weakly suppresses
  11. L27:2829 weakly suppresses
  12. L27:908 weakly excites
  13. L27:713 weakly excites
  14. L27:1599 weakly excites
  15. L27:2917 weakly suppresses
  16. L27:2775 weakly excites
  17. L27:2243 weakly suppresses
  18. L27:1593 weakly excites
  19. L27:2532 weakly excites
  20. L27:2200 weakly suppresses
  21. L27:2626 weakly excites
  22. L27:437 weakly suppresses
  23. L27:1256 weakly suppresses
  24. L27:854 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 -31.91 and -30.561 values between -18.47 and -17.131 values between -13.09 and -11.751 values between -11.75 and -10.411 values between -10.41 and -9.061 values between -9.06 and -7.721 values between -7.72 and -6.381 values between -6.38 and -5.035 values between -5.03 and -3.698 values between -3.69 and -2.348 values between -2.34 and -1.002497 values between -1.00 and 0.341342 values between 0.34 and 1.6934 values between 1.69 and 3.033 values between 3.03 and 4.381 values between 5.72 and 7.061 values between 7.06 and 8.411 values between 20.50 and 21.84offnegativepositiveoften

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. úa
  2. lessness
  3. ocrates
  4. ucas
  5. скачать
  6. sını
  7. keletal
  8. отов
  9. itous
  10. iev

Suppresses

  1. am
  2. am
  3. (am
  4. Am
  5. AM
  6. Am
  7. -am
  8. AM
  9. _am
  10. _AM