'a' after 'play' or 'plays'
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. 4 of Qwen3-0.6B. Its strongest snippets are very consistent: they mostly 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
This neuron fires on the word 'a' when it follows 'play' or 'plays', as in 'play a role'. Turning it up sent the text off into unrelated questions and numbers.
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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not only promote critical thinking and problem-solving skills but also foster a love for scientific inquiry.⏎Cultivate Creativity with Arts and Crafts⏎Artistic expression plays a vital role in a child’s development. Encourage your students
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, Number 2 publication, refers to the second issue of its 25th-year publication.⏎The role and importance of academic journals⏎Academic journals play a pioneering role in research and academia. They provide a platform for academic researchers to share
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lifting, chronic cough, and chronic constipation place additional pressures on the pelvic floor. Genetically weak collagen, and smoking (which weakens collagen), both play a role in weakness of the pelvic floor. Pudendal nerve injury (usually
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.⏎"Our upland areas, for example, play a huge role in terms of carbon storage, water supply, recreation and tourism. Our
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mix of environment and genetics. Certain temperament types are more likely to demonstrate one or more of these styles than others. And the culture, family and society also play a role. But the most important factor in determining how a person came to use one
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higher your body fat content (calculate your body fat now), the higher the concentration of leptin in your blood stream is likely to be. Leptin plays a key role in regulating metabolism, body weight and energy expenditure.⏎According to previous research
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: "The question is to find out the value of the function, but not to find out the value of the function." Let me read this to the story, and I need to get a copy of the PDF. Let me try to read
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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a peal of bells, swing paper balls at each other and scramble for pennies. Up-Helly-Aa is a Shetland Isles festival, dating back to Viking times, when a thirty-foot model Viking ship, complete with banners,
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advice. Please talk to your doctor before using any of the herbs and/or remedies mentioned in this article. Yarrow is one of the oldest medicinal herbs, dating back thousands of years and used for various ailments. It’s a member of the aster
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, however, the specialists demonstrated it through observational studies involving children from the age of 2
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, however it also publishes the work of historians, philosophers, and others who’re concerned about
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
- L1:699 weakly excites
- L3:130 weakly excites
- L2:41 weakly suppresses
- L3:59 weakly excites
- L2:49 weakly suppresses
- L3:187 weakly excites
- L2:70 weakly excites
- L3:122 weakly excites
- L1:2232 weakly excites
- L3:50 weakly excites
- L1:1652 weakly suppresses
- L3:884 weakly suppresses
- L0:2986 weakly suppresses
- L2:340 weakly excites
- L2:2523 weakly excites
- L1:1432 weakly suppresses
- L1:2333 weakly excites
- L0:1301 weakly suppresses
- L3:691 weakly excites
- L0:2750 weakly suppresses
- L0:3005 weakly suppresses
- L0:717 weakly excites
- L1:1342 weakly suppresses
- L0:985 weakly suppresses
Feeds later layers
- L24:1223 strongly suppresses
- L20:2633 strongly excites
- L20:1690 excites
- L19:2795 excites
- L26:381 suppresses
- L23:1252 weakly excites
- L5:558 weakly suppresses
- L26:626 weakly suppresses
- L26:2143 weakly excites
- L26:2372 weakly excites
- L26:725 weakly suppresses
- L27:857 weakly suppresses
- L16:428 weakly suppresses unclear: mid-sentence commas, 'most' before a verb
- L22:2458 weakly suppresses
- L19:473 weakly excites
- L25:535 weakly excites commas inside number lists
- L26:511 weakly suppresses
- L26:540 weakly excites
- L26:2027 weakly excites
- L26:1867 weakly suppresses
- L26:2749 weakly suppresses
- L26:2217 weakly suppresses
- L25:225 weakly suppresses
- L22:1130 weakly excites
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
- konk
- bü
- nau
- horizontally
- align
- ToolStrip
- -fluid
- あり
- erer
- nerRadius
Suppresses
- ICLES
- OGLE
- quartered
- opyright
- woods
- icularly
- redit
- ldre
- ustom
- light