the spot before a year number
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. 5 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
The neuron fires on the empty spot right before a year, such as after "beginning in" or "born in", when the next word is about to be a year like 1961 or 2009. Turning it up gave rambling text that did not clearly relate to dates.
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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spacewalk on June 3.⏎Astronauts have been photographing Earth from space since the early Mercury missions beginning in 1961. Today, they observe the Earth from their unique point of
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well known, this hostility between evolution and Christianity continued into the twentieth century, most famously in 1925 in Dayton Tennessee, when the young schoolteacher John Thomas Sc
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“colonizer” on the sculpture’s pedestal.⏎There was also apparently an attempt to topple the statue of the abolitionist:⏎Baldwin, born in 1795, moved to Philadelphia from his birthplace of Elizabet
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Act to let 18-year-olds vote.⏎The Supreme Court, in Oregon v Mitchell, limited this right so the 26th Amendment was passed in 1971 to confirm it.⏎President Nixon stated March 2
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the middle of the last decade and perhaps longer, the growth path and survival rate of new businesses means they are generating fewer new jobs.⏎The businesses that started in 2009, for example, are on course to create 1 million
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shieldmaid<|endoftext|>My class, this article dating from the difference between relative dating - places rock layers to answer to the placement of a fossils found out. In which of absolute age by several. A point. Scientists used in years, or event.W
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: think small, 100% of the time, 100%... I'm a little tired. Let me do it. I'm a little tired, I will have to... I am a little tired. Let me
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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on this day, January<|endoftext|>The data are in, and the numbers are unequivocal.⏎After all the tumult, after the industry-fostered head-in-sand denialism, after the legislative tinkering to obfuscate the emerging reality,
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limit calculation is considered to be difficult are mentioned here in this section.⏎This is a learning difficulty which is commonly found in students across the globe. In this learning difficulty a student can find trouble in learning and understanding shapes, formulas, and other numeric
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see blood spots on your sheets, live or dead bugs, molted skins, spots of fecal matter, or tiny eggs (usually found in dark crevices).⏎While bed bugs may carry disease, they are not observed to pass disease to
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away run the lizards!⏎Ecologist Sean Doody discovered this while in the field with student Phillip Paull. The two were lifting eggs out of a crevice when . . . Holy Dooley! The hatchlings literally popped out and sprint
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
- L3:311 suppresses
- L3:265 suppresses
- L2:766 suppresses
- L4:2209 excites
- L2:1073 suppresses
- L3:528 weakly excites
- L3:369 weakly suppresses
- L4:572 weakly excites
- L2:461 weakly suppresses
- L2:1394 weakly suppresses
- L2:488 weakly excites
- L4:682 weakly suppresses
- L3:520 weakly suppresses
- L3:382 weakly suppresses
- L4:39 weakly suppresses
- L2:658 weakly excites
- L3:662 weakly suppresses
- L4:362 weakly excites
- L0:1913 weakly excites
- L0:2338 weakly suppresses
- L1:466 weakly excites
- L2:491 weakly suppresses
- L1:231 weakly suppresses
- L4:464 weakly suppresses
Feeds later layers
- L6:894 strongly suppresses
- L8:359 suppresses
- L6:421 suppresses
- L10:262 suppresses
- L7:1134 suppresses
- L8:563 suppresses
- L9:2442 suppresses
- L9:509 suppresses
- L7:1185 suppresses
- L11:741 suppresses
- L12:1792 suppresses
- L8:133 excites
- L12:1255 suppresses
- L15:853 suppresses
- L13:2548 suppresses
- L9:361 suppresses
- L7:2159 suppresses
- L14:1848 suppresses
- L10:472 suppresses
- L12:631 suppresses
- L8:54 excites
- L6:695 excites
- L12:870 suppresses
- L13:921 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
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- прав
- automát
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- adamente
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Suppresses
- ounds
- 面前
- 眼里
- es
- smelled
- smells
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- Describe
- unt
- -rate