word before 'needed' or 'required'
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 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 fires on the word just before a spot where 'needed' or 'required' would fit, like 'no special preparation is' or 'they simply'. Turning it down made the model repeat the word 'required' over and over.
Written by Claude from this neuron's activations and steering outputs. Confidence: medium. Think it is wrong? Flag it (opens an email to the maker with the neuron already filled in).
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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and well-to-do could afford to own slaves, and they had no reason or need to justify slavery based on any notion of race or racial inferiority. They simply needed slave labor to maintain their “luxurious way of life.”⏎Africans
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of the rich. Their lives were dependent primarily on obedience to their employers. Willingly or not, they participated in a continuing economic system that benefitted primarily those who were super-rich. They were totally bound to those who literally owned them.⏎In
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personnel. Despite looking out of this world, it was a very real aircraft.⏎The D-21, constructed without landing gears, was an innovative contraption that could only be used only once and was jettisoned mid-air from another
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to look for:⏎No special preparation is needed before the test. A chest x-ray will be performed before and after the
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, but more often women would take the avenue that was available to them: writing in letters or editorials in the women’s pages, or under pseudonyms if they managed to break into the main pages of the paper (Rex x). According
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viewed from this PDF file:⏎The HOTBOX uses the principle of insulated cooking. If you can keep the heat that is used to cook food, no replacement heat is necessary to complete
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.
Here is something I have been thinking about lately: required required required required required required required required required required required required required required required required required required required required required required required required required required required required required required required required required required required required required required required required required required required required required required required required
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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to live in them with ease.⏎There are currently 11 national parks in the Thar Desert, the largest of which are the Rann of Kutch and the Nara Desert Wildlife Sanctuaries. The Rann of K
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aces one still is one of London’s most famous landmarks: the Tower of London.⏎The Tudor period (Henry VIII, Queen Elisabeth I) was one of the most productive in the history of the English monarch
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Tertiary e) limestone at the bottom overlying the basalts. What remains today is a shallow water atoll about 10 kilometers across.⏎Location: As its name suggests, Midway lays nearly half-way between the continents of North America
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
- L22:912 strongly excites
- L25:1711 strongly suppresses
- L21:2956 suppresses
- L20:1743 excites
- L23:1338 suppresses
- L21:1990 excites
- L23:108 suppresses
- L26:1564 excites
- L21:914 excites
- L21:1611 excites
- L21:1422 suppresses
- L19:2621 suppresses
- L20:2032 suppresses
- L21:1646 excites
- L23:127 suppresses
- L23:360 suppresses
- L26:466 excites
- L22:444 suppresses
- L18:2747 suppresses
- L23:747 excites
- L24:422 excites
- L19:1087 excites
- L24:337 suppresses
- L23:975 excites
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
- gie
- .inspect
- 说完
- setSupportActionBar
- vation
- 埤
- 概况
- 挫
- oxy
- bite
Suppresses
- required
- needed
- required
- Required
- Required
- needed
- Needed
- desired
- →required
- 所需