'City' in 'New York City'
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 responds to the word 'City' when it follows 'New York', and also to a few other place-name endings. Its strongest negative responses are on 'even' in phrases like 'even if' and 'even though'. Turning it up or down did not produce a clear, consistent change in the written output.
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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a storage tank, which would connect to a drip irrigation system to water fruits and vegetables.⏎Our 3D viewer requires a WebGL enabled browser http://get.webgl
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6, the Soviet probe Luna 9 became the first manmade object to make a soft landing on the moon.⏎In 1971, New York City police officer Frank Serpico, who had charged there was widespread corruption in the
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’t,” he said.⏎Trujillo enlisted in the U.S. Army in <|endoftext|>On June 12, 1909, New York City began an eight-day celebration of the connection of the East Side of Manhattan with Long
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is the Associate Professor of Stage Management and Production Manager at Brooklyn College. He has been production stage manager for numerous Broadway and regional productions, as well as New York City Opera. His diverse career in live performance presentations includes: Entertainment Operations Manager for the
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were circumcised by the same person, the report said. The New York City Commissioner of Health has issued a directive ordering that person to stop performing direct orogen
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on display. However, while Fort Hamilton is an active Army base, the defense of New York City is now the responsibility of the Navy and the Air Force.⏎Part of the Installation
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: a problem. So, if you need to get into the fun part: a challenge. And if you want to get the adventurous: a task. So, if you want to get the even more adventurous: a challenge. So, if
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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course, here too, you want to redirect the output.⏎svn diff > ~/patch.diff⏎There are useful variants too (shown here without redirection)⏎Note: even if svn can make the difference of another directory (svn diff mydirectory), it
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levels below that standard, it is generally considered safe to drink. People are strongly advised to take special care if a water supply contains two VOCs, however, even if they are both below the maximum allowable concentration.⏎Bioworx has just
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not quite true. Even though they represent one family of plants, there are some distinctive features between the two
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by buying tracts of land, but which often fail to address the needs or rights of local Indigenous peoples. Uninhabited forest areas often go unprotected, even if purchased through a buy-an-acre program. It is not uncommon for loggers
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
- L3:46 suppresses
- L3:456 weakly suppresses
- L3:2720 weakly suppresses
- L3:50 weakly excites
- L3:2280 weakly excites
- L0:2846 weakly excites
- L3:464 weakly excites
- L3:703 weakly suppresses
- L3:59 weakly excites
- L2:977 weakly excites
- L3:421 weakly suppresses
- L2:2897 weakly excites
- L3:1936 weakly excites
- L1:1053 weakly suppresses
- L2:793 weakly suppresses
- L0:872 weakly excites
- L2:2912 weakly excites
- L1:2036 weakly suppresses
- L0:1042 weakly suppresses "This" starting a labelled sentence
- L2:2073 weakly suppresses
- L3:691 weakly excites
- L2:2213 weakly excites
- L2:2679 weakly excites
- L3:122 weakly excites
Feeds later layers
- L5:2775 suppresses
- L5:1877 excites
- L9:1328 suppresses
- L23:851 weakly suppresses
- L6:2739 weakly suppresses
- L5:2197 weakly excites
- L5:813 weakly excites
- L11:1472 weakly suppresses
- L7:1658 weakly excites
- L25:2634 weakly excites
- L24:524 weakly excites
- L8:1020 weakly excites
- L5:671 weakly suppresses
- L15:642 weakly suppresses
- L8:1070 weakly excites
- L22:1149 weakly suppresses
- L12:1195 weakly excites
- L10:845 weakly excites
- L14:1945 weakly suppresses
- L16:2698 weakly suppresses 'even' after 'but' or 'while'
- L22:2947 weakly suppresses
- L23:2297 weakly excites
- L23:1582 weakly excites
- L14:1999 weakly suppresses
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
- 'er
- 鞅
- ellers
- ductor
- rift
- clid
- InMillis
- reator
- ufreq
- ях
Suppresses
- sterdam
- assigned
- .Configuration
- JSImport
- 防卫
- Báo
- borg
- 皲
- mented
- nie