Neuron Explorer

Qwen3-0.6B

the space before a year in dates

A neuron in layer 8 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 space just before a year in dates like 'January 14, 2022' or 'Sep 28, 2009'. It is quieter on the space before a chapter and verse number, such as 'Deuteronomy 6:1', where it is strongly negative. Turning it up did not give a clear theme in the model's 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

    . ®<|endoftext|>Posted: Sep 28, 2009 8:19 PM by Michael Marsh⏎Updated: Sep 28, 2009 8:35 PM⏎Source

  2. #2 peak

    and 134. All these vehicles were fitted with ballast ploughs.⏎N 1 was scrapped<|endoftext|>Last Updated on January 14, 2022 Posted by Colonial Acres Coins⏎A fractional coin set consists of

  3. #3 peak

    child is one of the 12 percent--now what are we going to do about it?"⏎How about it?<|endoftext|>Published on Feb 20, 2013⏎CBS News RAW: A new eruption on Mount Etn

  4. #4 peak

    Delta, BC, Canada (Martyr Brand), www.canmet.com<|endoftext|>5 interesting facts about the Singapore River clean-up⏎Published on Jul 5, 2014 6:00 AM⏎The heavily polluted Ganges

  5. #5 peak

    900 – 14 August 1958) was a French physicist, who shared the 19

  6. #6 peak

    18, 2009⏎- Fossils, mineral rocks attract huge crowds at expo (With Images) - Jan 05, 2012⏎- Mammals running speed determines eye size - May

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 have a 3D shape, which is a cube. For example, the cube has 12 edges. Now I have a 3D shape, which is a cube. For example, the cube has 12 edges

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

    God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, ad so that you may enjoy log life” (Deuteronomy 6:1, 2). God

  2. #2 peak

    known to your children and to your children’s children – the day you stood before the L-ord, your G-d, at Sinai” (Deuteronomy 4:9-10

  3. #3 peak

    foundation of our religion.⏎So, for example, we are commanded to remember our miraculous exodus from Egypt all the days of our lives (see Deuteronomy 16:3), as the many supernatural wonders that we witnessed at that time

  4. #4 peak

    olerance, quality can degrade gradually. There is no ability to determine deteriorating quality until it is too late. This situation was dramatically highlighted by the Alaska Airlines Flight 261 accident in early 2000. Poor maintenance (l

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. L4:53 excites blank slot before a number
  2. L6:1550 excites
  3. L6:42 suppresses
  4. L7:193 suppresses space before day after month
  5. L4:447 suppresses
  6. L0:1301 suppresses
  7. L6:344 excites
  8. L4:1129 excites
  9. L0:1224 suppresses
  10. L5:2539 excites
  11. L6:1469 excites
  12. L3:302 weakly excites
  13. L6:371 weakly suppresses
  14. L7:79 weakly excites
  15. L0:178 weakly suppresses
  16. L1:1609 weakly excites
  17. L5:2991 weakly suppresses
  18. L7:14 weakly excites
  19. L4:2129 weakly suppresses
  20. L6:756 weakly suppresses
  21. L5:1837 weakly excites
  22. L6:917 weakly suppresses comma after a month and day
  23. L3:421 weakly suppresses
  24. L4:1977 weakly suppresses

Feeds later layers

  1. L16:256 suppresses number right after 'age of' or 'ages'
  2. L9:330 suppresses gap where a number was removed
  3. L10:433 suppresses
  4. L20:4 suppresses
  5. L10:758 suppresses 'of' in US agency names
  6. L17:170 suppresses
  7. L10:220 suppresses hyphen inside compound words
  8. L26:103 suppresses blank space before a number
  9. L25:182 suppresses
  10. L17:222 suppresses
  11. L23:12 suppresses
  12. L15:73 suppresses
  13. L14:926 suppresses
  14. L27:170 suppresses unclear: spaces in mixed-language text
  15. L21:38 suppresses
  16. L24:1604 suppresses
  17. L13:3 excites
  18. L24:197 suppresses
  19. L26:121 suppresses
  20. L27:283 suppresses the spot right before a number
  21. L17:327 suppresses
  22. L17:868 suppresses
  23. L17:36 excites
  24. L14:830 suppresses

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 -4.64 and -4.491 values between -3.63 and -3.481 values between -3.19 and -3.051 values between -3.05 and -2.903 values between -2.18 and -2.041 values between -1.89 and -1.752 values between -1.75 and -1.611 values between -1.61 and -1.464 values between -1.46 and -1.322 values between -1.32 and -1.172 values between -1.17 and -1.033 values between -1.03 and -0.883 values between -0.88 and -0.742 values between -0.74 and -0.595 values between -0.59 and -0.4513 values between -0.45 and -0.31122 values between -0.31 and -0.16890 values between -0.16 and -0.022069 values between -0.02 and 0.13620 values between 0.13 and 0.27118 values between 0.27 and 0.4237 values between 0.42 and 0.564 values between 0.56 and 0.711 values between 0.71 and 0.852 values between 0.99 and 1.14offnegativepositiveoften

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. t
  2. }}}
  3. ch
  4. 软
  5. c
  6. 缩
  7. "}}
  8. ye
  9. 佯
  10. 取

Suppresses

  1. ramento
  2. ellig
  3. utivo
  4. osterone
  5. ernity
  6. ernen
  7. ersonic
  8. lesi
  9. izon
  10. ationally