Neuron Explorer

Qwen3-0.6B

"the" in nickname titles

A neuron in layer 6 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 the word "the" when it comes between a person's name and a nickname, like "Rosey the Riveter", "Yaroslav the Wise" or "Robert the Bruce". Turning it up did not produce any clear change in the writing.

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

    1000-piece puzzle of World War II propaganda posters tells the story from the Home Front. Who wouldn't recognize Rosey the Riveter, the woman, sporting a red bandana, her bicep

  2. #2 peak

    grand prince. This succession pattern was generally followed through the reigns of Svyatopolk (1015–19); Yaroslav the Wise (1019–54); his sons Izyaslav

  3. #3 peak

    tiny bit safer.⏎Cyril The Lonely Cloud by Tim Hopgood⏎It’s a bright and lovely day, the perfect day for a picnic, until Cyril the lonely cloud shows up. Everybody agrees he is a bore and a spoilsport

  4. #4 peak

    want to be told something like ‘I’m going to clean you,’ and then the robot cleans. But the opposite was true,” Chen said.⏎Image: Cody the robot touches one of 56 study participants. (Georgia Tech)⏎- Robot

  5. #5 peak

    to King Edward I of England during the latter's brief conquest of Scotland. However, eight years later, he was appointed Warden of Stirling Castle by Robert the Bruce of Scotland to whom he had willingly pledged allegiance. And yet Edward of England

  6. #6 peak

    to a 40-day siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. This is probably the oldest Christian church in the world, built by Constantine the Great and dating from AD330. A member of the girl’s family

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: the, and, and. The, and. The, and. The, and. The, and. The, and. The, and. The, and. The, and. The, and. The, and. 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

    she travels to Wyoming and shares them with her new family. Here are two articles about Swedish Christmas traditions.⏎Swedish Christmas Traditions:⏎from Christmas World/WorldofChristmas.net⏎In Sweden, Christmas begins with Saint Lucia ceremony on 13

  2. #2 peak

    "wielding his machete until the foe had<|endoftext|>|Theme||Visible||Selectable||Appearance||Zoom Range (now: 0)|⏎Well-to-well tracer tests contribute significantly to the reservoir description, which is essential in determining the best

  3. #3 peak

    Walter Lord, author of the classic "A Night to Remember", describes the process vividly in his 1986 sequel, "The Night Lives On". He compares the ships of Titanic's day to the first great liner, the

  4. #4 peak

    n), composed between 650-550 BC, that is believed to be one of the oldest.⏎The Homeric Hymn to Demeter⏎However, the episode beforehand is as important as the story itself. It starts

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. L5:1623 weakly suppresses
  2. L2:407 weakly suppresses
  3. L3:2962 weakly excites
  4. L0:2526 weakly excites
  5. L1:2751 weakly excites
  6. L4:2659 weakly excites
  7. L4:758 weakly suppresses
  8. L5:1658 weakly excites
  9. L4:2964 weakly suppresses
  10. L2:2337 weakly excites
  11. L3:682 weakly excites
  12. L4:2373 weakly excites
  13. L5:38 weakly suppresses
  14. L4:2656 weakly suppresses
  15. L1:2357 weakly suppresses
  16. L3:2043 weakly excites
  17. L2:2966 weakly suppresses
  18. L3:568 weakly suppresses
  19. L0:1318 weakly excites
  20. L5:201 weakly excites
  21. L3:108 weakly suppresses
  22. L4:672 weakly suppresses
  23. L1:188 weakly suppresses
  24. L1:1385 weakly suppresses

Feeds later layers

  1. L7:26 suppresses
  2. L9:758 excites
  3. L10:217 suppresses
  4. L10:457 suppresses
  5. L9:1607 suppresses
  6. L13:1550 suppresses
  7. L7:6 excites
  8. L14:282 excites
  9. L18:93 excites
  10. L10:105 excites
  11. L16:323 excites
  12. L9:845 excites
  13. L19:413 suppresses
  14. L10:1748 weakly excites
  15. L19:223 weakly excites
  16. L15:1601 weakly suppresses
  17. L10:121 weakly excites
  18. L15:181 weakly excites
  19. L19:711 weakly suppresses
  20. L19:211 weakly excites
  21. L20:398 weakly suppresses
  22. L15:286 weakly excites
  23. L9:1026 weakly excites
  24. L9:401 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 -1.04 and -0.912 values between -0.91 and -0.776 values between -0.63 and -0.5026 values between -0.50 and -0.36169 values between -0.36 and -0.23683 values between -0.23 and -0.091745 values between -0.09 and 0.05987 values between 0.05 and 0.18237 values between 0.18 and 0.3236 values between 0.32 and 0.455 values between 0.45 and 0.594 values between 0.59 and 0.732 values between 0.73 and 0.861 values between 0.86 and 1.001 values between 1.00 and 1.131 values between 1.54 and 1.681 values between 1.68 and 1.811 values between 4.26 and 4.40offnegativepositiveoften

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. 书
  2. intelligent
  3. odable
  4. luck
  5. 多元
  6. Jud
  7.  
  8. eta
  9. av
  10. 进步

Suppresses

  1. acement
  2. cies
  3. erties
  4. /close
  5. (compare
  6. exels
  7. :NS
  8. �数
  9. rish
  10. comparer