Neuron Explorer

Qwen3-0.6B

"as well" and "as much as"

A neuron in layer 27 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

This neuron fires on the word "as" when it begins the phrase "as well" or "as much as", where "well" is expected next. Turning it down makes the model repeat the word "well".

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

    are all girls.⏎- Children that had died were named. So if one son called Jan Hendrik died, the next one born would be called Jan Hendrik as well. Usually, if you see two children with the same name, the oldest

  2. #2 peak

    (both images from Fri Aug 9 2019)⏎“Similar particles have been detected near Saturn, suggesting⏎that the process is at work there as well,” says Liu. “Indeed,” adds⏎Angelopoulos, “this type

  3. #3 peak

    your community soup kitchen, giving to others is a selfless act that benefits everyone involved. Did you know that generosity and giving to others can benefit your own wellbeing as much as it benefits those who receive your act of kindness?⏎It’s true.

  4. #4 peak

    new wonderful interactive SAMR visual for teachers. I just came across it while I was going through my Google Plus feeds and thought you may want to have a look as well. For those of you not yet familiar with what SAMR model is all

  5. #5 peak

    8 and above, cool temperatures are not the plant’s only enemy. The plant also requires humidity to look its best, which is why it typically doesn’t do well as a houseplant. Unfortunately, outdoors is where

  6. #6 peak

    or adolescent for their preventive health care maintenance visits as recommended. These visits provide pediatricians with the opportunity to check your child’s vital signs, growth and weight, as well as perform a physical and behavioral health screen.⏎- Nutrition and healthy lifestyle advice

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: well well well well well well well well well well well well well well well well well well well well well well well well well well well well well well well well well well well well well well well well well well well well well well well well

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

    one of these information "places" could be a resource for information you are looking for, in the same sense that resources for getting water might include a lake, a stream or a well.⏎What does "documenting resources" mean?⏎Documenting

  2. #2 peak

    grave was found amid the ruins of a 13th century monastery in the Old Town area of Edinburgh. The site has been earmarked for a rainwater-harvesting tank for the city’s new Centre for Carbon Innovation.⏎City of

  3. #3 peak

    and Particle Physics at Brookhaven, "This finding is particularly remarkable because strange quarks were one of the early signatures of the formation of the primordial quark-gluon plasma. Now we're using this QGP signature as a tool to

  4. #4 peak

    . 2012⏎4: Correct Usage 5 | No longer did Western culture look to the heavens to find a sense of self or a God-given identity; instead, it looked to the material world to discover a new way

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. L24:1927 strongly suppresses
  2. L25:1386 strongly excites
  3. L25:1289 strongly excites
  4. L22:1295 strongly excites 'as' before 'well' or 'as much'
  5. L26:2615 strongly suppresses
  6. L23:1502 excites
  7. L22:2540 excites
  8. L19:1969 suppresses
  9. L24:2608 excites
  10. L21:1264 excites
  11. L23:3065 excites
  12. L22:201 excites
  13. L22:2924 excites
  14. L20:1642 excites
  15. L26:1564 excites
  16. L25:357 suppresses
  17. L6:8 suppresses
  18. L21:2493 suppresses
  19. L22:2326 excites the word 'well' before -known
  20. L8:7 weakly excites
  21. L8:10 weakly excites
  22. L26:1992 weakly suppresses
  23. L23:2355 weakly excites
  24. L23:215 weakly suppresses

Feeds later layers

None: this is the last layer.

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 -20.72 and -19.282 values between -19.28 and -17.853 values between -17.85 and -16.411 values between -16.41 and -14.983 values between -13.54 and -12.112 values between -12.11 and -10.676 values between -10.67 and -9.244 values between -9.24 and -7.809 values between -7.80 and -6.375 values between -6.37 and -4.9316 values between -4.93 and -3.5035 values between -3.50 and -2.06134 values between -2.06 and -0.632726 values between -0.63 and 0.81941 values between 0.81 and 2.247 values between 2.24 and 3.683 values between 3.68 and 5.113 values between 5.11 and 6.552 values between 7.98 and 9.421 values between 9.42 and 10.861 values between 12.29 and 13.731 values between 16.60 and 18.031 values between 19.47 and 20.901 values between 35.25 and 36.69offnegativepositiveoften

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. arry
  2. [count
  3. 集团股份
  4. ьер
  5. ieves
  6. út
  7. ographical
  8. prisingly
  9. 路边
  10. ency

Suppresses

  1. well
  2. Well
  3. well
  4. Well
  5. WELL
  6. bien
  7. wells
  8. wellbeing
  9. bem
  10. "Well