the 'res' fragment inside words
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. 26 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 fires on the syllable 'res' when it sits inside a longer word, such as resold, resented, resided, respiration or resurfacing. Pushed down, the model produced a stream of commas, which fits its tendency to suppress commas.
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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them is more profitable?⏎Previously it was all simple. Every person who sold or resold something was called a trader. But nowadays everything has changed: dealers, distributors
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wet. Plants are intolerant of root disturbance and should be planted into their permanent positions whilst still small. Division in spring is very difficult, since the plant strongly resents root disturbance. It is probably best to take quite small divisions, or basal
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development.⏎During the early years of St. Anthony and after the merge, Fifth Street Southeast remained one of the finer streets of residence. Many of the people who resided in this neighborhood were merchant families originally from New England. The flour and milling
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the incomparable Bill Murray as Phil Conners, an insufferable Pittsburgh weatherman. A minor local celebrity who believes himself destined for much better things, he resents
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's allowable specifications.⏎A brake rotor has a specified minimum thickness. The brake rotor must measure thicker than the manufacturer's minimum or discard thickness after the technician has finished resurfacing the rotors. Normal braking action can cause wearing of the rotor surfaces
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sensitive index of respiratory function, showed that mtDNA from chimpanzee, pigmy chimpanzee, and gorilla replaced the human mtDNA and restored respiration to essentially normal levels. Mitochondrial protein synthesis was also unaltered
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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by John Kennedy at Rice University in Houston in September of 1962:⏎“We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because
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among savages than among civilised men. Notwithstanding the differences which necessarily exist between savage and civilised ethics, the two systems must evidently have much in common, for from the days of Columbus to the present, travellers have given testimony of customs
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object is fulfilled by the supramental being's appearance. But there is no such stress in reality: the idea of human progress itself is very probably an illusion, for there is no sign that man, once emerged from the animal stage, has
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Street View is available, the image is from the best available vantage point looking, if possible, towards the location of the monument. Where it is not available, the satellite view is shown instead.⏎Latitude: 52.516
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
- L21:344 strongly excites
- L21:1484 strongly excites comma after a sentence subject
- L20:1358 strongly excites
- L20:882 strongly excites
- L20:2082 strongly excites
- L21:393 strongly excites unclear: relative 'that' and list items
- L22:368 strongly excites
- L20:811 strongly suppresses
- L25:969 strongly suppresses
- L19:2493 strongly excites
- L24:6 strongly excites
- L18:1394 strongly excites
- L21:1070 strongly excites
- L21:530 strongly excites
- L20:610 strongly suppresses
- L20:173 strongly excites
- L20:1399 strongly excites
- L21:632 strongly suppresses
- L20:1744 strongly suppresses comma after a sentence's subject
- L21:1059 strongly suppresses
- L20:2730 strongly suppresses
- L21:809 strongly excites
- L20:2608 strongly excites
- L19:2645 strongly excites commas in the middle of a sentence
Feeds later layers
- L27:86 strongly excites
- L27:358 strongly suppresses
- L27:191 suppresses
- L27:77 excites
- L27:286 suppresses
- L27:130 excites
- L27:139 weakly excites
- L27:265 weakly suppresses
- L27:2921 weakly excites
- L27:936 weakly suppresses
- L27:947 weakly suppresses
- L27:575 weakly suppresses
- L27:347 weakly excites
- L27:753 weakly suppresses
- L27:1061 weakly excites
- L27:197 weakly suppresses
- L27:2066 weakly excites
- L27:1651 weakly excites
- L27:63 weakly excites closing parenthesis in data lists
- L27:168 weakly excites
- L27:1391 weakly suppresses
- L27:982 weakly suppresses
- L27:214 weakly excites
- L27:1498 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
- 돌
- sons
- iped
- artin
- ös
- сты
- ;b
- cks
- ilon
- ;n
Suppresses
- ,
- ,),
- ,",
- ,',
- ,’
- ,"
- ,),⏎
- **,
- ,**
- ,"⏎