Neuron Explorer

Qwen3-0.6B

'in' or 'the' in 'up in the air'

A neuron in layer 6 of Qwen3-0.6B. Its strongest snippets are fairly consistent: several of them peak on the same token. It is featured, so it has steering outputs.

What this neuron does

This neuron responds to the small word after a phrase about moving or rising, like 'went up in the air' or 'rose higher in the sky'. It reacts negatively to emotional descriptions such as 'in awe', 'stern' and 'confusion'. Turning it up or down gave no clear, matching theme in the written text.

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

    n of Farewell—literally, The back turned on Ireland.⏎Writers without number have traced the glories of Iona. Here rose, as if by miracle, a city of churches; the isle became one vast monastery, and

  2. #2 peak

    and faced them toward each other one will over power and cause the other to spin in the wrong direction (burn out just like connecting a 9V and 6V

  3. #3 peak

    ars in fright, trampling men beneath its hooves. At lower left, another warrior turns his head away from the fire, flinging one hand up in the air while

  4. #4 peak

    out in dark spots. Over the days and weeks that followed, these spots formed fan-like markings, and spidery patterns. As the sun rose higher in the Martian sky, the spots and fans became more numerous.⏎"Originally, scientists thought

  5. #5 peak

    treated?⏎Children with significant ptosis may need to tilt their head back into a chin-up position, lift their eyelid with a finger, or raise their eyebrows in an effort to see from under their drooping eyelid. Children with congenital

  6. #6 peak

    men heard the shells edging closer. “And then bang!—one of the big shells struck the ground right in front of us and we all went up in the air. But we all come down again.”⏎York was showered with honors

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: "I don't know why I look at me at the same time as I see what I'm doing. I'm trying to do something. I'm looking at the others around the world. It's like, trying to see what the

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

    the CSUF faculty a year ago.⏎Matheus had been interested in the physical sciences since he was a kid. He would stare up at the clouds in awe and wonder what processes were involved. In high school, he competed in national and

  2. #2 peak

    are individualized, his expression stern. On the reverse, his parents, Heliocles and Laodice

  3. #3 peak

    inar: What is Gene Drive?⏎- Over 2,000 Nigerian<|endoftext|>Books for Children⏎A Japanese American boy named “Shorty” watches with confusion and awe as he and his family are removed from their home and sent to an

  4. #4 peak

    expert reaction ranged from the skeptical to the dismissive, with good reason. The plans called for Google to put hundreds of solar-powered

Connections

Show on map

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. L3:950 excites
  2. L1:445 excites document start marker token
  3. L3:1095 weakly excites
  4. L2:914 weakly suppresses
  5. L4:871 weakly suppresses
  6. L5:1234 weakly suppresses
  7. L1:1058 weakly excites closing quote marks after a quoted term
  8. L4:454 weakly suppresses
  9. L3:2758 weakly excites
  10. L3:103 weakly excites
  11. L0:882 weakly suppresses
  12. L1:2577 weakly excites
  13. L4:507 weakly suppresses
  14. L4:2165 weakly excites
  15. L5:1007 weakly suppresses
  16. L1:2600 weakly excites
  17. L3:3027 weakly excites
  18. L3:115 weakly suppresses
  19. L1:1206 weakly excites
  20. L0:288 weakly excites
  21. L3:1179 weakly suppresses
  22. L0:2213 weakly suppresses
  23. L5:1377 weakly suppresses
  24. L2:679 weakly suppresses

Feeds later layers

  1. L8:725 suppresses
  2. L13:2457 suppresses
  3. L9:3022 suppresses
  4. L10:2771 suppresses
  5. L10:2227 suppresses
  6. L8:2991 weakly suppresses
  7. L14:175 weakly excites
  8. L18:2457 weakly suppresses word after "due to" or "with"
  9. L8:825 weakly suppresses
  10. L10:3029 weakly suppresses
  11. L11:2334 weakly suppresses
  12. L14:3028 weakly excites
  13. L7:425 weakly suppresses
  14. L9:1809 weakly suppresses
  15. L10:2939 weakly suppresses
  16. L8:1793 weakly suppresses
  17. L12:431 weakly suppresses
  18. L12:1223 weakly suppresses
  19. L8:1176 weakly suppresses
  20. L10:523 weakly excites
  21. L25:1590 weakly excites
  22. L9:663 weakly suppresses
  23. L10:2045 weakly excites
  24. L26:2998 weakly excites

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 -2.48 and -2.402 values between -1.52 and -1.441 values between -1.05 and -0.971 values between -0.97 and -0.894 values between -0.89 and -0.811 values between -0.81 and -0.732 values between -0.73 and -0.653 values between -0.65 and -0.575 values between -0.57 and -0.4910 values between -0.49 and -0.4127 values between -0.41 and -0.3388 values between -0.33 and -0.25231 values between -0.25 and -0.17420 values between -0.17 and -0.10660 values between -0.10 and -0.021094 values between -0.02 and 0.06676 values between 0.06 and 0.14383 values between 0.14 and 0.22169 values between 0.22 and 0.3078 values between 0.30 and 0.3836 values between 0.38 and 0.469 values between 0.46 and 0.543 values between 0.54 and 0.624 values between 0.62 and 0.70offnegativepositiveoften

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. igne
  2. ák
  3. thé
  4. PID
  5. 内科
  6. gaard
  7. fine
  8. 附近的
  9. �除
  10. theValue

Suppresses

  1. 听完
  2. 听了
  3. 她说
  4. 的眼神
  5. 率为
  6. 谅解
  7. ери
  8. aptic
  9. 批
  10. 看著