Neuron Explorer

Qwen3-0.6B

commas after citation fields

A neuron in layer 4 of Qwen3-0.6B. Its strongest snippets are very consistent: they mostly peak on the same token. It is featured, so it has steering outputs.

What this neuron does

This neuron fires on commas that come right after a number or title in citations and reference lists, such as the comma after a year or page size. When it was turned up, the model fell into repeated phrases rather than a clear topic.

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 activation was highest. Amber marks positive activation; the outlined token is the peak. Hover a token for its strength.

  1. #1 peak

    of Study Technologies.⏎Oxford English Dictionary |⏎Definitions, pronunciations, and word histories. Usage of modern and historical words traced through

  2. #2 peak

    important reason.⏎Secondly, you could say it... [continues]⏎Cite This Essay⏎(2012, 05). The Struggle for Power in the Ussr. Study

  3. #3 peak

    has been that the majority of the lower mantle is made up of a single ferromagnesian silicate mineral, commonly called perovskite (Mg,Fe)SiO3) defined through its chemistry and structure. It was thought

  4. #4 peak

    Neurochemistry · Neuroendocrinology · Neuroscience · Psychoneuroimmunology · Physiological Psychology · Psychopharmacology (Index, Outline)⏎Electrical conductance is the reciprocal of electrical resistance. It is a

  5. #5 peak

    · Neuroanatomy · Neurochemistry · Neuroendocrinology · Neuroscience · Psychoneuroimmunology · Physiological Psychology · Psychopharmacology (Index, Outline)⏎|Brain: Planum temporale|⏎|Approximate location of W

  6. #6 peak

    ⏎DOMINGUES, Beatriz Helena. The guarani jesuitic missions in the context of Enlightenment. História [online]. 2006, vol.25, n.1, pp. 44-6

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: and this is a problem. I am not a problem, I am just writing for you to review So, this is the case for a review I need to do something ### The problem Okay, Let me know... ##

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

    that are pulled through the water by the vessels. The trawls are midwater- pulled through the water column-, and bottom- dragged along the seabed. The bottom trawling activities brought

  2. #2 peak

    to win the general election for House races (58%), although only two of fourteen (14%) Senate primary runoff winners were elected.

  3. #3 peak

    Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela to U2 and Stevie Wonder. (Source: PBS)⏎The conclusion of "Have You Heard From Johannesburg?, Free at Last," recalls the end stage of South Africa's apartheid system, when

  4. #4 peak

    , 13-year-old Jared High suffered from physical injuries, depression, and possibly post-traumatic stress disorder. He committed suicide on Sept. 29, 1998.⏎Bulling isn’t a game of “child’s

Connections

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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. L3:71 suppresses
  2. L3:1534 suppresses
  3. L3:1787 suppresses
  4. L2:66 excites
  5. L0:1596 excites
  6. L1:86 excites
  7. L0:68 suppresses
  8. L3:59 excites
  9. L3:272 weakly excites
  10. L3:50 weakly excites
  11. L1:1464 weakly excites
  12. L0:584 weakly excites
  13. L2:1657 weakly excites
  14. L3:421 weakly suppresses
  15. L1:2340 weakly suppresses
  16. L3:115 weakly suppresses
  17. L2:111 weakly suppresses
  18. L0:178 weakly suppresses
  19. L0:2921 weakly suppresses
  20. L3:77 weakly suppresses
  21. L2:156 weakly suppresses
  22. L3:122 weakly excites
  23. L1:491 weakly excites
  24. L2:2834 weakly excites

Feeds later layers

  1. L14:35 strongly excites
  2. L16:240 strongly excites comma after 'sometimes' or 'the truth'
  3. L9:77 strongly excites commas in citations and name lists
  4. L10:335 strongly excites commas in catalog, date, and list metadata
  5. L19:1826 strongly excites
  6. L18:366 strongly excites comma inside numbers and dates
  7. L17:2285 excites
  8. L20:1298 excites
  9. L17:118 excites comma after a clause ending
  10. L19:726 excites comma inside large numbers
  11. L16:1082 excites comma linking two clauses after 'and'
  12. L17:2001 excites
  13. L15:588 excites comma after an introductory phrase
  14. L16:241 suppresses
  15. L19:2645 excites commas in the middle of a sentence
  16. L23:184 excites
  17. L16:2745 excites
  18. L11:154 excites commas after citation numbers
  19. L5:16 excites
  20. L16:846 excites comma opening an aside or explanation
  21. L20:476 excites commas that lead into a continuation
  22. L18:1394 excites
  23. L17:1405 excites
  24. L19:383 excites commas after a clause or list item

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 -1.21 and -1.061 values between -0.91 and -0.762 values between -0.76 and -0.6138 values between -0.61 and -0.47243 values between -0.47 and -0.321179 values between -0.32 and -0.172015 values between -0.17 and -0.02241 values between -0.02 and 0.1329 values between 0.13 and 0.2817 values between 0.28 and 0.427 values between 0.42 and 0.5724 values between 0.57 and 0.7214 values between 0.72 and 0.877 values between 0.87 and 1.029 values between 1.02 and 1.1711 values between 1.17 and 1.317 values between 1.31 and 1.469 values between 1.46 and 1.615 values between 1.61 and 1.764 values between 1.76 and 1.914 values between 1.91 and 2.052 values between 2.05 and 2.206 values between 2.20 and 2.357 values between 2.35 and 2.503 values between 2.50 and 2.652 values between 2.65 and 2.803 values between 2.80 and 2.942 values between 2.94 and 3.092 values between 3.09 and 3.243 values between 3.24 and 3.393 values between 3.39 and 3.545 values between 3.69 and 3.831 values between 3.83 and 3.981 values between 4.28 and 4.431 values between 4.57 and 4.72offnegativepositiveoften

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. て
  2. </
  3. ')</
  4. </
  5. ']}</
  6. ]}</
  7. ]</
  8. }</
  9. ')}</
  10. }</

Suppresses

  1. RX
  2. ainers
  3. urances
  4. rema
  5. const
  6. resenter
  7. [cur
  8. 间的
  9. "[
  10. memory