Neuron Explorer

Qwen3-0.6B

the 'd' that starts 'die' or 'dead'

A neuron in layer 27 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

It fires on the letter 'd' when it begins a word piece like 'die', 'dead' or 'dive', such as 'do-or-die' or 'cut-and-dry'. Turning it up made the model stutter the word 'die' over and over.

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

    / 4⏎(3) Améliorer la qualité du système de santé et maîtriser les dépenses : propositions de l’Assurance Maladie pour 2014 – Rapport au Ministre chargé de

  2. #2 peak

    factors prompted FWC to ban the killing of this species. To date, the policy on the goliath grouper is “catch and release” and “dive viewing” only.⏎The Commission’s recent discussions regarding eventually removing an outright ban

  3. #3 peak

    cancers by “up to 60%”. While these findings are important and their results may make your inner rabbit happy, they aren’t quite as cut-and-dry as some reporting may have you believe.⏎The study looked at a total of

  4. #4 peak

    application of life cycle thinking and assessment in the waste sector. [EU Press Release] [Commission Communication on Bio-waste]<|endoftext|>Constitutional Recognition of Non-Discrimination on the Basis of Sexual Orientation in Zambia,⏎Charles Zambia, Guest Writer⏎

  5. #5 peak

    newly landed Mars science rover Curiosity snapped the first color image of its surroundings while an orbiting sister probe photographed litter left behind during the rover’s daring do-or-die descent to the surface, scientists said Tuesday.⏎Curiosity’s color image,

  6. #6 peak

    substance of the bread and wine of Holy Communion change into the body, blood, and soul of our Lord when magic words are spoken over them by a fancy-dressed priest. Transubstantiation and its Anglican clone are excuses to worship

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: what would happen to American-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel-Israel

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

    summer 1798 was the worst in Philadelphia’s history. Over 5,000 residents were infected, and nearly 1,300 died, causing even President Washington to flee. While yellow fever swept the city,

  2. #2 peak

    was one of the many Anglo-Norman nobles that were invited northward by the early Norman kings of Scotland. He settled in Northamptonshire, but when he saved King David I during the siege of Winchester Castle, he received a small grant

  3. #3 peak

    856, she married a non-Jewish Northerner, Thomas Noyes Pember, of Boston, but was left a childless widow when he died of tuberculosis in 1861.⏎In late 186

  4. #4 peak

    based on a young prince of Denmark that must uncover the truth about his fathers death. Hamlet a play that tells the story of a young prince who’s father recently died. Hamlets uncle Claudius marries his mother the queen and takes the

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. L22:2357 strongly suppresses
  2. L21:2035 suppresses
  3. L23:665 excites
  4. L23:560 suppresses
  5. L21:1477 excites
  6. L8:2921 suppresses
  7. L24:597 excites
  8. L23:858 suppresses
  9. L24:661 weakly excites
  10. L25:2593 weakly suppresses
  11. L6:18 weakly excites
  12. L9:143 weakly excites
  13. L18:569 weakly excites
  14. L20:2832 weakly excites
  15. L24:2835 weakly suppresses
  16. L26:747 weakly excites
  17. L26:1564 weakly excites
  18. L10:1972 weakly excites
  19. L26:271 weakly excites
  20. L21:769 weakly suppresses
  21. L22:201 weakly excites
  22. L15:2098 weakly excites
  23. L20:3040 weakly excites
  24. L19:2744 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 -19.06 and -17.841 values between -11.75 and -10.533 values between -8.10 and -6.883 values between -6.88 and -5.665 values between -5.66 and -4.447 values between -4.44 and -3.2213 values between -3.22 and -2.01225 values between -2.01 and -0.793516 values between -0.79 and 0.43101 values between 0.43 and 1.658 values between 1.65 and 2.876 values between 2.87 and 4.094 values between 4.09 and 5.316 values between 5.31 and 6.522 values between 6.52 and 7.743 values between 8.96 and 10.181 values between 11.40 and 12.621 values between 12.62 and 13.831 values between 19.93 and 21.141 values between 28.45 and 29.67offnegativepositiveoften

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. die
  2. Die
  3. Die
  4. dies
  5. die
  6. died
  7. →die
  8. death
  9. DIE
  10. _die

Suppresses

  1. SystemService
  2. �
  3. usercontent
  4. ▴
  5. authDomain
  6. agogue
  7. wright
  8. тал
  9. urity
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