last digits of big numbers
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. 7 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 reacts to the digits inside large numbers, like the final part of '24,300 mph' or '70,000 kilometres'. It does not change the model's writing in any obvious way when turned up.
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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Telescope on the space rock as it zoomed away from Earth at 24,300 mph on Wednesday. Swift is best-known for its observations of high-energy outbur
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Mars in several slingshot maneuvers to accelerate and help hurdle the spacecraft toward its destination. The comet is traveling toward the sun at 34,175 mph. After a high-speed chase across nearly 4 billion miles (6.
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ospheric Multiscale mission (MMS) has set the Guinness World Record for highest altitude fix of a GPS signal – at 70,000 kilometres above the surface of the Earth.⏎Operating in a highly elliptical orbit around
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Mars' distant past, according two new reports in the journal Nature.⏎Glaciers moved from the poles to the tropics 350,000 to 4 million years ago, depositing massive amounts of ice at the base
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so-called transition zone (top) and the core-mantle boundary (below). Pressures in the lower mantle start at 237,000
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above the convergent plate margin between the African Plate and the Eurasian Plate. It is the tallest active volcano in Europe, currently standing 3,329 m (10,922 ft) high, though this varies with
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: the first time, when we were in the first part of the story, we had to take into account for the future. What is the best way to have a place for them, and what is the best way for the future? -
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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all counterfeit drugs contain the wrong ingredients, while 17 per cent contain the wrong levels of necessary ingredients.⏎High profits, low penalties⏎With nearly $1 trillion in<|endoftext|>|Scientific Name:||Pyrrhura viridicata
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in Chicago was called upon to assemble some detailed cost figures from butter manufacturers whose 77 plants produced almost 150,000,000 pounds of butter annually. These figures reflected accurately the big increases in the costs of
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05, over 7,000 natural disasters worldwide had taken the lives of nearly 2 million people and produced economic losses of more than $1 trillion. But the agency pointed out that efforts to better deal with disasters have begun to
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forced to pay billions in bribes annually to numerous regulatory and police stops on its interstate highways.⏎Indian media has widely published allegations of corrupt Indian citizens stashing trillions of dollars in Swiss banks. Swiss authorities, however, deny these allegations.⏎The
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
- L6:560 suppresses
- L5:2149 excites
- L5:866 suppresses
- L4:889 excites large number scale words
- L6:474 weakly suppresses
- L6:2059 weakly suppresses
- L1:439 weakly excites
- L6:2758 weakly suppresses
- L6:1946 weakly excites
- L3:2813 weakly excites
- L6:2559 weakly suppresses
- L6:2227 weakly excites
- L4:2922 weakly suppresses
- L6:1326 weakly suppresses
- L6:1878 weakly excites
- L6:1867 weakly suppresses
- L6:1119 weakly suppresses
- L4:2376 weakly suppresses
- L5:723 weakly excites
- L6:2160 weakly suppresses
- L6:1193 weakly excites
- L1:2719 weakly excites
- L0:1223 weakly excites
- L3:2323 weakly suppresses
Feeds later layers
- L11:2125 excites
- L10:589 suppresses
- L12:1194 suppresses
- L12:1867 weakly excites
- L9:2753 weakly suppresses
- L21:882 weakly excites
- L25:2795 weakly suppresses
- L23:2327 weakly suppresses
- L13:2537 weakly excites
- L15:2548 weakly excites
- L23:442 weakly suppresses
- L18:2269 weakly suppresses
- L15:1039 weakly excites
- L10:725 weakly excites
- L23:2085 weakly excites
- L10:650 weakly excites
- L12:843 weakly suppresses
- L10:1559 weakly excites
- L13:730 weakly suppresses
- L11:1040 weakly excites
- L10:2550 weakly excites
- L23:2136 weakly excites 'in' after a noun phrase
- L13:2629 weakly suppresses
- L25:2055 weakly excites
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
- onymous
- ctype
- bote
- kiện
- ッシュ
- villa
- chet
- atomy
- eldo
- stown
Suppresses
- ither
- Hers
- 出让
- atar
- licensors
- рав
- entert
- landır
- alore
- iard