"a" after sentence-opening "As"
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. 8 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 lights up on the word "a" in phrases like "As a result" or "As a guide" at the start of a sentence. When it was turned up, the text drifted into unrelated talk about weather and temperatures, so the steering did not show a clear effect.
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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, Norway, Sweden, and Finland. Researchers hope the study results will provide Native organizations and local governments across the Arctic with information to help make policy decisions. As a major step toward that goal, the team is hosting an international meeting with indigenous policy
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personal lives might be put on the line.⏎It’s high time that all companies start intensifying their data protection measures to safeguard their data and hardware assets. As a guide, here are the five biggest IT security threats that you should prepare for as
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China has also made agreements with Australia, Japan, Thailand, Russia, and Vietnam to allow for direct currency trade, instead of converting to the US Dollar. As a managed float, the Renminbi's value is determined by a basket of foreign
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also impact the ways in which current and foreseeable future group individuals understand and interpret information that they receive. As a result, the relationship among communication and way of life is a complicated and romantic one
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is still not officially considered to be medically underserved. When health professionals don't understand how to care for people with disabilities, it promotes bias in healthcare. As a result, patients with disabilities lose trust in medical care, which can put their lives
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− tumors.”⏎Around 70% of breast cancers are ER-positive, meaning that the tumors have estrogen receptors and can grow in response to the hormone. As a result, ER-positive tumors can be treated in part with hormone-blocking therapies to restrict
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: "If you are a student, what are the implications of the internet?" This question is not just a personal one. It can be a question of "if you are a teacher" and "if you are a researcher." The internet is
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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level n = 3 between x = 0 and x = L/ 6?⏎Answer to relevant QuestionsWhich has the lowest (ground-state) energy, an electron trapped in a one dimensional box of length 10-6 m or
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1 we need to activate segments b and c.⏎This is the basic 8051 connected up to the 7 segment display, other circuitry such as crystal and capacitors and power is not shown here.⏎The display is a common
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costs.⏎For the new study, published online in Critical Care Medicine, researchers sought to measure the impact of telemedicine consultations compared to other modes of treatment, such as telephone consultations or treatment without consultations.⏎The study included 320 seriously ill
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Disc, Ashwathama thought of going to Krishna and getting the Sudarshana Chakra for himself by bargaining with the most powerful weapon he had – the Brahma-astra. He immediately left for Dwaraka and met Krishna.
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
- L7:8 excites
- L7:135 excites 'of' after 'issue' in citations
- L6:1424 excites
- L6:60 excites
- L5:563 weakly excites
- L6:1639 weakly excites
- L6:228 weakly excites comma after a filler word
- L6:858 weakly excites
- L6:1479 weakly suppresses
- L6:2082 weakly excites
- L6:2594 weakly excites 'with' after a verb of action
- L2:2008 weakly excites
- L6:1641 weakly suppresses
- L6:512 weakly suppresses
- L2:896 weakly excites
- L4:16 weakly excites
- L6:662 weakly suppresses
- L6:1567 weakly excites colon introducing a summary point
- L6:2785 weakly excites
- L6:2178 weakly suppresses
- L6:1406 weakly excites
- L5:2939 weakly suppresses
- L3:2051 weakly excites
- L7:2456 weakly suppresses
Feeds later layers
- L9:459 suppresses
- L11:294 suppresses
- L20:94 suppresses
- L9:80 suppresses
- L12:652 suppresses
- L19:177 excites
- L16:1224 suppresses
- L10:459 suppresses
- L13:2594 excites
- L19:1446 suppresses
- L17:77 weakly excites
- L16:1548 weakly excites
- L16:316 weakly suppresses
- L11:1385 weakly excites
- L18:134 weakly excites
- L13:408 weakly suppresses
- L19:249 weakly excites
- L9:97 weakly excites
- L14:1690 weakly suppresses
- L15:35 weakly suppresses
- L21:225 weakly excites
- L16:786 weakly suppresses
- L9:283 weakly excites
- L14:1402 weakly suppresses
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
- 意思
- altında
- ании
- spells
- okhttp
- 昆明
- orio
- odo
- 规定
- pytest
Suppresses
- 三级
- ERIC
- ersen
- tero
- atty
- .hasOwnProperty
- ers
- -than
- ctype
- bell