the word 'people' coming next
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 mixed: they peak on different tokens. 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 seems to be about predicting the word 'people'. Its strongest negative examples sit right before 'people' or 'most of us' or 'million people', and turning it up made the model repeat 'people' endlessly. The positive examples are weak and show no clear shared pattern.
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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the most southerly science research station operated by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and is located on the 150-metre thick floating Brunt Ice Shelf, which moves 400 metres per annum towards the sea.
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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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
- L22:1721 strongly excites
- L25:1291 strongly excites
- L24:1139 strongly excites 'young' before people or adults
- L23:1145 strongly suppresses
- L21:2329 strongly excites
- L24:2326 strongly suppresses
- L24:2089 strongly suppresses
- L23:2866 strongly suppresses
- L23:98 strongly excites
- L24:383 suppresses
- L22:1266 excites
- L19:1876 excites
- L23:436 excites
- L22:2728 suppresses
- L25:1560 excites
- L22:2723 excites
- L19:2289 suppresses
- L24:2236 suppresses
- L25:532 excites
- L22:1036 excites
- L22:94 suppresses
- L21:999 suppresses
- L19:2845 suppresses
- L22:1473 suppresses
Feeds later layers
- L27:1515 excites
- L27:2339 excites
- L27:2226 excites
- L27:307 weakly excites
- L27:1884 weakly excites
- L27:389 weakly excites
- L27:2066 weakly excites
- L27:1014 weakly excites
- L27:1636 weakly excites
- L27:2778 weakly suppresses
- L27:346 weakly excites
- L27:1314 weakly excites
- L27:2716 weakly suppresses
- L27:1922 weakly excites
- L27:853 weakly excites
- L27:1962 weakly excites
- L27:826 weakly excites
- L27:1038 weakly excites
- L27:2557 weakly excites
- L27:1080 weakly excites
- L27:1620 weakly excites
- L27:1706 weakly suppresses
- L27:2022 weakly excites
- L27:1198 weakly suppresses
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
- people
- people
- person
- People
- person
- People
- persons
- Person
- 的人
- Person
Suppresses
- etCode
- IntervalSince
- .Slf
- amentos
- строитель
- atitude
- oined
- enade
- Broadcom
- isci