the 'd' that starts 'die' or 'dead'
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. 27 of Qwen3-0.6B. Its strongest snippets are fairly consistent: several of them 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
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 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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/ 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
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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
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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
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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⏎
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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,
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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
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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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,
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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
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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
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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 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
- L22:2357 strongly suppresses
- L21:2035 suppresses
- L23:665 excites
- L23:560 suppresses
- L21:1477 excites
- L8:2921 suppresses
- L24:597 excites
- L23:858 suppresses
- L24:661 weakly excites
- L25:2593 weakly suppresses
- L6:18 weakly excites
- L9:143 weakly excites
- L18:569 weakly excites
- L20:2832 weakly excites
- L24:2835 weakly suppresses
- L26:747 weakly excites
- L26:1564 weakly excites
- L10:1972 weakly excites
- L26:271 weakly excites
- L21:769 weakly suppresses
- L22:201 weakly excites
- L15:2098 weakly excites
- L20:3040 weakly excites
- L19:2744 weakly suppresses
Feeds later layers
None: this is the last layer.
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
- die
- Die
- Die
- dies
- die
- died
- →die
- death
- DIE
- _die
Suppresses
- SystemService
- �
- usercontent
- ▴
- authDomain
- agogue
- wright
- тал
- urity
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