Neuron Explorer

Qwen3-0.6B

"the" before a named organisation or title

A neuron in layer 9 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 lights up on the word "the" when it starts a specific name, such as a journal, a society, a council or a convention. When it was turned up, the model's writing drifted into unrelated topics, and turned down it got stuck repeating "the the".

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

    provides information of a general nature and is designed for educational purposes only. If you have any concerns about your own health or the health of your child, you should always consult with a physician or other health care

  2. #2 peak

    in the herbal remedy plant St. John's wort, becomes super-toxic to viruses and cancer cells when exposed to light.⏎The results were published today in the Journal of the American Chemical Society by chemists from Iowa State University and the U

  3. #3 peak

    one side of an equilateral triangle and the circle touches the other two sides of the triangle. A smaller circle touches the larger circle and. . . .⏎X is a moveable point on the hyp

  4. #4 peak

    the US, this did not include the waste produced by the American owned maquiladoras in Mexico. It was really an act to ratify the Basel Convention on the control of transboundary movement of hazardous wastes and their disposal. Right now the issue

  5. #5 peak

    x=n.⏎SOURCE: Carpenter, Corbitt, Kepner, Lindquist, and Reys, 1981. Used by permission of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.⏎merical values and use it when x=

  6. #6 peak

    .<|endoftext|>Start a 10-Day Free Trial to Unlock the Full Review⏎Why Lesson Planet?⏎Find quality lesson planning resources, fast!⏎Share

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: what is the a question about I need to write a response Okay, so I'm thinking about something. Maybe that's a question. I need to write a response. I need to write a response Okay, I'm thinking

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

    complication of liver cancer.⏎Generally, cirrhosis appears in at least 20% of patients within 20 years of infection. Cir<|endoftext|>Parts of the woods at Tangled Branches South are carpeted with blueberries

  2. #2 peak

    ⏎- PRODUCING THEATER⏎- CREATING THEATER⏎- THE CREATIVE TEAM⏎- THE CREATIVE ARTISTS⏎- IMPLEMENTING THE DESIGNS⏎- PRODUCTIONG MANAGEMENT / STAGE MANAGEMENT / TECHN

  3. #3 peak

    composed of dark energy and dark matter.⏎Besides all of this, Rubin was an advocate for women in the sciences–especially as she was often the only woman in the field. For instance, she was the only astronomy major to graduate from the women

  4. #4 peak

    , Secondhand Pesticides. We found that many pesticides remained in the air near fields at high levels for hours, or even days after application. Anyone in the vicinity of such applications faced exposure.⏎Sept. 9

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. L4:52 strongly excites
  2. L3:291 excites
  3. L6:640 suppresses "the" introducing a noun phrase after a name or preposition
  4. L1:59 excites 'the' after a verb or preposition
  5. L0:26 suppresses
  6. L8:759 excites
  7. L5:1172 excites
  8. L4:49 suppresses
  9. L6:426 suppresses
  10. L8:595 excites
  11. L6:61 suppresses
  12. L1:1796 excites
  13. L8:2257 suppresses
  14. L0:39 weakly excites 'the' right after 'On' in 'On the other hand'
  15. L6:443 weakly suppresses
  16. L4:163 weakly suppresses
  17. L1:2340 weakly suppresses
  18. L2:111 weakly suppresses
  19. L0:774 weakly suppresses
  20. L5:46 weakly excites
  21. L0:1905 weakly suppresses
  22. L3:59 weakly excites
  23. L2:1914 weakly excites
  24. L7:1716 weakly excites

Feeds later layers

  1. L17:30 strongly excites
  2. L16:792 strongly excites "the" inside a prepositional phrase
  3. L18:641 strongly excites
  4. L16:419 strongly excites
  5. L17:1481 excites 'the' after 'some of' or 'most of'
  6. L26:1941 excites
  7. L20:361 excites
  8. L18:799 excites
  9. L16:1776 excites 'the' after a verb or preposition
  10. L21:614 excites
  11. L12:435 excites
  12. L16:2062 excites "other" and contrast words
  13. L17:2970 excites
  14. L10:120 excites
  15. L18:1547 excites
  16. L17:2190 excites 'the' starting an object phrase
  17. L19:427 excites
  18. L20:2374 excites "the" after verbs like laid, reaching, raises
  19. L19:1376 excites
  20. L20:1246 excites
  21. L11:875 excites
  22. L16:2266 excites 'the' before study or journal names
  23. L11:1168 suppresses
  24. L25:2373 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 -1.19 and -0.942 values between -0.94 and -0.69189 values between -0.69 and -0.441862 values between -0.44 and -0.191646 values between -0.19 and 0.0615 values between 0.06 and 0.3214 values between 0.32 and 0.579 values between 0.57 and 0.8210 values between 0.82 and 1.079 values between 1.07 and 1.3210 values between 1.32 and 1.5811 values between 1.58 and 1.8316 values between 1.83 and 2.0815 values between 2.08 and 2.337 values between 2.33 and 2.586 values between 2.58 and 2.8310 values between 2.83 and 3.0911 values between 3.09 and 3.348 values between 3.34 and 3.596 values between 3.59 and 3.845 values between 3.84 and 4.094 values between 4.09 and 4.349 values between 4.34 and 4.607 values between 4.60 and 4.854 values between 4.85 and 5.101 values between 5.10 and 5.352 values between 5.35 and 5.605 values between 5.60 and 5.854 values between 5.85 and 6.111 values between 6.11 and 6.361 values between 6.36 and 6.611 values between 6.61 and 6.862 values between 6.86 and 7.111 values between 7.11 and 7.371 values between 7.62 and 7.871 values between 8.12 and 8.371 values between 8.37 and 8.621 values between 8.62 and 8.88offnegativepositiveoften

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. same
  2. aforementioned
  3. same
  4. oret
  5. latter
  6. basics
  7. following
  8. latest
  9. association
  10. respective

Suppresses

  1. 很喜欢
  2. 毌
  3. icult
  4. uously
  5. ⏎
  6. entially
  7. antas
  8. `=
  9. 累了
  10. 因地制宜