the digit 9 in years 1900s
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 '9' in years written like 1960, 1947 or 1990, where the year is split so the model has to guess the next digits. Its opposite side is weak and unrelated. Turning it up gave no clear theme in the 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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. military to experiment with containers. First used by military traffic commands, containers were extended to commercial use in the mid-1960s. Container use has continued to grow steadily in the United States and
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Mountain states acting as a neutral buffer zone between the two.⏎Set in the early 1960s, fifteen years after the Axis victory in 1947, much of the book takes place in San Francisco where we see Robert
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lags behind the industry high of 55 million boxes, reached in the mid 1990's. However, according to Ocean Spray's Grapefruit Juice Marketing Manager
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instruction. In the mid-1930s the central government tried to culturally assimilate the local population through the
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00,000 are ethnic Tibetans. In a survey carried out in Lhasa in July 1993 on the southern Lingkor, a street parallel to the Barkhor,
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CIA⏎The US Congress has had oversight responsibilities over the CIA since the Agency was established in 1947. However, prior to the mid-1970s, oversight responsibilities resided in the Armed Services Committees of both chambers
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 company that a person has had for a company. The building that a person has had for a company. The building that a person has had for a company. The building that a person has had for a company. The building that a
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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N.F.) is the third supporting idea. * Amerindians forced to do unpaid labor to build roads, buildings, and other infrastructure in towns through the Encomienda System (S.W.) * The N.E. Confederation made specifically for
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age was a field hand on an Alabama cotton plantation. Four times he attempted escape and finally, on his fifth try in 1
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River.⏎It should surprise no one that women played an important role in the industrialization of the United States. Homage to Women celebrates their role in the textile mills that were built along the Merrimack River in Lowell. Kaufman had this
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early 17th c. War resulted in a boundary being defined between the Indians and English.⏎The Spanish Southwest, New York and New France: the Encomienda
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
- L3:631 excites
- L3:960 excites
- L3:142 suppresses
- L3:2628 weakly excites
- L1:1142 weakly suppresses
- L1:1229 weakly excites
- L1:1387 weakly suppresses
- L3:108 weakly suppresses
- L2:2479 weakly suppresses
- L1:709 weakly suppresses
- L3:1588 weakly excites
- L3:115 weakly suppresses
- L2:1957 weakly excites
- L0:2743 weakly suppresses
- L3:1864 weakly suppresses
- L0:2042 weakly suppresses
- L0:1731 weakly suppresses
- L3:408 weakly suppresses
- L2:1575 weakly suppresses
- L1:955 weakly excites
- L3:2684 weakly suppresses
- L3:620 weakly excites
- L3:1474 weakly excites
- L1:2593 weakly excites
Feeds later layers
- L18:991 weakly excites
- L5:2414 weakly suppresses
- L5:267 weakly excites
- L18:2807 weakly suppresses
- L17:560 weakly excites
- L18:265 weakly excites first half of institution names
- L8:394 weakly excites
- L16:1612 weakly suppresses
- L6:1405 weakly suppresses
- L18:2756 weakly suppresses
- L16:211 weakly excites
- L5:1620 weakly suppresses
- L21:2931 weakly suppresses
- L6:509 weakly suppresses
- L23:1023 weakly suppresses
- L20:1210 weakly suppresses
- L16:256 weakly excites number right after 'age of' or 'ages'
- L10:1091 weakly excites
- L6:579 weakly excites
- L8:457 weakly excites year digits in copyright and dates
- L15:42 weakly excites
- L12:2733 weakly suppresses
- L10:1083 weakly suppresses
- L10:220 weakly excites hyphen inside compound words
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
- writable
- SYNC
- 螵
- 起飞
- odox
- ゃ
- TYPO
- ">{{
- ikki
- وى
Suppresses
- ements
- quil
- unnel
- Answers
- ein
- Answer
- دول
- 天河
- ifi
- 槎