'and' in lists of three
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 fires on the word "and" when it comes just before the last item in a list, such as "assets, liabilities, and equity." It is negative on an opening bracket after a name, as in "Tiger (Panthera Tigris)." Turning it up did not make the writing clearly about lists.
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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. It’s a common phrase used for a myriad of symptoms affecting your ability to think. Brain fog can include things like memory problems, lack of mental clarity, and an inability to focus, and put thoughts into words. Some people describe it as
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from the seafood business. Industry personnel joined conservationists, researchers, and government officials in discussing a range of sustainability issues - marine spatial planning, traceability shortcomings, and next-generation aquaculture among them.⏎The toughest item on the agenda may well
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, messages, and information like recipes or instructions. In many cases, content like photos or videos is shared. Read on
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: I can't. It's not a good idea. I have to think about it. So, in the end, I see a lot of people who are doing the same thing, and I can't do it. So, I have
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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ye National Park.⏎Royal Manas National Park comprises three regions:⏎Fifty-eight mammal species have been reported in the park to date such as:⏎- Tiger (Panthera Tigris),⏎- Clouded Leopard (Neofelis
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Gratis is used as both an adjective (The drinks were gratis) and an adverb (Drinks were served gratis).
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
- L6:597 suppresses
- L5:947 weakly suppresses
- L3:2501 weakly excites
- L5:509 weakly excites the word 'even' after a clause
- L6:1064 weakly excites
- L6:171 weakly excites
- L3:1959 weakly suppresses
- L5:756 weakly excites
- L5:891 weakly suppresses
- L3:522 weakly suppresses
- L5:744 weakly suppresses
- L3:1266 weakly suppresses
- L2:1169 weakly excites
- L4:1931 weakly excites
- L0:316 weakly suppresses
- L5:1356 weakly excites
- L5:345 weakly excites
- L6:2608 weakly suppresses
- L4:27 weakly excites
- L2:1124 weakly suppresses
- L5:2194 weakly suppresses
- L5:197 weakly excites
- L4:854 weakly excites
- L6:824 weakly excites
Feeds later layers
- L10:782 suppresses
- L8:1047 excites
- L8:986 suppresses
- L9:532 suppresses
- L13:912 suppresses
- L11:130 suppresses
- L12:1509 suppresses
- L12:690 suppresses
- L15:270 suppresses
- L14:1190 suppresses
- L16:1307 suppresses
- L11:76 excites
- L8:72 excites
- L13:106 excites
- L16:1141 suppresses
- L12:2811 excites
- L16:2421 suppresses
- L12:276 excites
- L15:1095 suppresses
- L12:683 excites
- L11:244 excites
- L14:1116 excites 'and' inside lists
- L11:644 excites
- L9:694 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
- unately
- 莎
- cams
- outfile
- шли
- 况
- }.
- 这时候
- contre
- 甸
Suppresses
- 人格
- ழ
- แรง
- 든
- iage
- revisit
- ide
- 行为
- icted
- иона